The conventional wisdom about Donald Trump is that, on the debate stage and off, he’s unpredictable — so unpredictable that Martin O’Malley, who challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, told the Atlantic’s James Fallows that Trump is like “a monkey with a machine gun.”
But look back to the 11 primary debates Trump participated in over seven months, and it’s clear that Trump wasn’t unpredictable at all. In every debate, he returned to the same handful of tricks that let him stand out from the crowd, steamrolling his opponents and flustering fact-checkers.
These tricks weren’t familiar tactics to politicians, who prepare …read more
Source: Vox
