Different skills.
Sometimes Trump illuminates well the narrow boundaries of a well-trained business mindset. The latest now is his confessed inablity to understand basic politics:
“Rick Santorum was a sitting senator who in re-election lost by 19 points, to my knowledge the most in the history of this country for a sitting senator to lose by 19 points. It’s unheard of. Then he goes out and says oh ‘okay’ I just lost by the biggest margin in history and now I’m going to run for president. Tell me, how does that work? … That’s like me saying I just failed a test. Now I’m going to apply for admission to the Wharton School of Finance. Okay? He just failed a test…. And now he’s going to run for president. So, I don’t get Rick Santorum. I don’t get that whole thing.”
Thinking in strict rank and one-dimensional systems – it makes sense – but society and politics does not work according to a unified system with such kind of logic. Maybe Santorum has changed, maybe people have changed, maybe segments of society have changed, maybe one state is by no means representative of the whole union – and maybe times just are different now.
History shows very few examples of business people in the White House – except for the 1920′s and the 2000′s. Focus on profits and apply a binary thinking on society – and the track record is not very good.
Which also makes one wonder about Mitt Romney – and what his private sector background would do the country, if let loose on regulations, budgets and long-term planning of America.
He is very fed up.
