For my part, I found the interview itself as an exercise in Dark Arts by Sam. He wants to pretend that he has given Trump politics a fair hearing. But he doesn’t have on someone who actually supports the politics in any conventional sense.
He has on a persuasion analyst who doesn’t believe in that there is much utility in us having political opinions because of our lack of knowledge and ability to be objective, and will say that his political opinions are so outside the mainstream that there is no point in discussing them. Similarly, he doesn’t argue morality because his he says that his own moral values are so outside the mainstream that he finds everyone immoral.
Not a guy who is going to defend Trump on policy or morality. He finds him an effective persuader, and thinks that an effective persuader will make a good president, and sees a number benefits accrued already.
Sam has him on, and then doesn’t even talk policy, but spends the hour attacking Trump personally.
Now watch to see how many times Sam uses this interview as evidence of engaging with the ideas behind Trump’s politics and finding them unconvincing.
For my part, I found the interview itself as an exercise in Dark Arts by Sam. He wants to pretend that he has given Trump politics a fair hearing. But he doesn’t have on someone who actually supports the politics in any conventional sense.
He has on a persuasion analyst who doesn’t believe in that there is much utility in us having political opinions because of our lack of knowledge and ability to be objective, and will say that his political opinions are so outside the mainstream that there is no point in discussing them. Similarly, he doesn’t argue morality because his he says that his own moral values are so outside the mainstream that he finds everyone immoral.
Not a guy who is going to defend Trump on policy or morality. He finds him an effective persuader, and thinks that an effective persuader will make a good president, and sees a number benefits accrued already.
Sam has him on, and then doesn’t even talk policy, but spends the hour attacking Trump personally.
Now watch to see how many times Sam uses this interview as evidence of engaging with the ideas behind Trump’s politics and finding them unconvincing.