[Oe List ...] Trump and the Dark Side of Image Change

[David Rebstock]

Jim, Do you have any plans to publish this more widely,i.e. in a public
media? Very helpful, we shared it with our minister and he will probably
use it in a sermon.
Ellen & David Rebstock

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:37 PM Karen Snyder via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> From: Jim Troxel
>
> As I am not a member of this august group, I have been encouraged by my
> wife, who is a member, to make available to it the attached article I have
> spent the last several months working on. I have already shared this with
> some of you one-on-one and the feedback I have gotten has helped me clarify
> my thoughts. One of them is this, which I think this group will grasp
> easier than the general public:
>
> Trump won the 2016 presidential election NOT because he had a better
> political message, platform, or apparatus. He won because he –
> instinctively – captured a “spirit issue” among many of the American
> people. The issue being that many people in our country right now feel as
> if they have been left out, behind, and forgotten. They were/are captives
> of the Victim Image. He sensed that vulnerability and exploited it with the
> crafty articulation of messages that shaped an image among the electorate
> that people resonated with: namely, he and he alone could rescue them from
> the clutches of forces outside their control.
>
> The political landscape of America can be viewed through a spiritual set
> of eyeglasses better than it can a political set: conservative / liberal;
> democrat / republican; and so forth.  The Democrats who run against Trump
> need to understand this lest they fall into his trap. A better healthcare
> legislation, a more tolerant immigration policy, and stricter gun control
> laws alone will not win the election of the next candidate the Democrats
> put forth, nor will it win for the 2018 congressional candidates.
>
> Hope you enjoy the article and if you wish to send me feedback, email it
> direct to me as I do not monitor the traffic on this channel.  My email is:
> jtroxel49 at gmail.com.
>
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