Trump's luck finally runs out

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

People underestimate the role luck (or chance) plays in an individual's life. Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are brilliant and accomplished, but more than a little good luck has helped them. Sergey Brin and Larry Page almost sold Google for $1 million (it's now worth nearly $1 trillion).

And so it is with Donald Trump. Trump has been lucky his entire life. But, as anyone who has ever been at a craps table knows, good luck doesn't last forever.

Pundits, political scientists and various other promoters of "big ideas" can opine all they want about the larger forces and deep strategy that got Trump into the White House - and there certainly was plenty of agency in Trump's rise - but the fact is he also got a lot of luck along the way.

Winning the Republican nomination was a close-run thing. Trump took longer to secure the nomination than any other Republican nominee since 1976. And, in the GOP primaries, Trump faced the most inexperienced field since 1964 with none of his opponents having been on a national ticket. Since 1948, only three Republican nominees had not had previous national experience: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater and George W. Bush

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Even as president, Trump had a lucky streak - a growing economy and a fairly peaceful international scene. Conflicts started under Bush and Barack Obama were (and are) diminishing. The Democrats cornered themselves into pursuing a doomed-to-fail impeachment trial that left Trump higher in the ballot test against Joe Biden than before.

But the coronavirus upended all that. A natural phenomenon impervious to criticism and uninterested in human preference, the virus short-circuited the economy - Trump's best issue area. The protests sparked by the death of George Floyd likely would not have been as extensive and long-lasting if it wasn't for unemployment and cabin fever.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-luck-finally-runs-out/ar-BB19H3BF?li=BBnbfcQ

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Quote from "Thelma and Louise": Either they're real smart or real lucky.

Brains'll take you only so far and you'll eventually run out of luck.

[Liberty Belle]

2. He's cheated his way to success his entire life, but you can't cheat a virus.

He may beat it, and that would be part luck but largely having access to top-notch medical care that many others lack.

I don't county cheating, conning and grifting as luck. I hope he lives long enough to be held accountable for his crimes.

[intrepidity]

3. "Chance" had nothing to do with how and why the virus spread within the US

That was all volition and incompetence

[ZZenith]

4. What a bunch of bullshit.

This article is ridiculous in its failure to highlight Trump’s mendacity while it attributes his success to “luck.”

I wish people would refrain from promoting MSN’s obvious manipulation.

[brush]

5. The stupid fuck has been lucky though. This OP is better than the...

frequent ones proclaiming that trump is an evil genius, which I always say, yeah right. Geniuses don't go bankrupt running casinos six times and they certainly don't go for months not wearing masks during a virus pandemic they continually pooh-pooh then end up getting and spreading the virus.

[ZZenith]

6. He has been amoral more than anything else.

Life is SO much easier when you don’t have a conscience preventing you from taking advantage of others.

[brush]

7. But not an evil genius.

[ZZenith]

8. He has a skill for knowing people's weaknesses and how to exploit them.

gen·ius
/ˈjēnyəs/

noun
noun: genius; plural noun: geniuses
1.
exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability.
"she was a teacher of genius"

Yes, he’s an evil genius, going by the definition of the word. One can be an idiot in many areas of life and yet still be a genius in some narrow aspect.

[brush]

9. I'll take "idiot in many areas" for 100 dollars, Alex.

We all have expertise in some narrow area.

[ZZenith]

10. I realize we are arguing semantics here.

Please know that I completely understand what you are saying.

[Skittles]

12. he can exploit STUPID, GREEDY PEOPLE

a lot of us have always been able to see through Donald Fucking Trump

[ZZenith]

13. It goes without saying

but I’m glad you said it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

15. Unfortuntely...

stupid, greedy people make up most of the population in this country.

[Skittles]

16. acutally they do not

most people did not want him to be president last time, and they don't want him this time either

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. Yes, but...

Being greedy is not exclusive to trump or his cronies, whether we want to admit it or not.

[Skittles]

20. true, dat

[madinmaryland]

17. Grifters grifting grifters.

[Skittles]

18. yes

alas, we are ALL paying the price

[Gothmog]

11. trump's arrogance-"Donald J. Trump defeats Covid" commemorative coin are for sale

Link to tweet

[Jack-o-Lantern]

14. good, milk the trump-humping rubes for a hundred dollar worthless piece of metal.