"These are the problem-solving strategies that Donald Trump brought to his marriages, six corporate bankruptcies, presidential campaign, and now, what increasingly appears to be a failed presidency. The consistent element in each of these has been to deny negative realities and keep moving. The casinos, the airline, the football league, Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, Trump University. . . all bear the same markings of hyper optimism and overpromise/underdeliver salesmanship."
Brent Orrell at The Bulwark discusses Norman Vincent Peale's influence on Donald Trump.
And at The Conversation, Kristin Kobes Du Mez explores why white Evangelical Protestants support Trump.
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
"Encouragement to Irrational Optimism"
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