A con man at heart:
Knows value of a dollar
but he has no cents.
I’ve met a bunch of people like Donald Trump in my line of work as an attorney.
They are usually very successful small businessmen who have a combination of perceived wealth, bravado, occasionally luck, and a belief that if they push hard enough, they can bully their way through anything to obtain whatever they want. Usually, this works well enough until they run into some force too damn big for them to bully over.
This particular subtype has always has the heart of a con man. Their method of operation is to always try to push the costs of anything onto another person, and they measure everything in terms of cost. And, in the end, many of them are actually rather highly leveraged — they have more money than average, true, but they don’t have so much money that they can ignore money entirely, and they always want to live with flash which projects more wealth than they have.
Invariably, these upper-middle-class masters don’t realize the limits of their power until they push it to far. They are both senseless and often-times without the sort of assets they need to really accomplish what they want to do. They’ve got lost of money, for a while, but its all leveraged. And when things go wrong, they always want to have someone else to blame.
What do i see with Trump? He’s decided that he’s going to outsource his campaign staff to the RNC — making them pay for it, essentially, and, if they don’t do it perfectly, he will blame is loss on them. He doesn’t have the access to wealth that he pretends to have — if he had that access, he wouldn’t be going dark right now. And he’s got no idea of the forces arrayed against him, or how hard this fight will be. The election is simply too damn big to just bully over.
I won’t be responding much, I’m at work, but that’s my Haiku of the day.