So you DO agree with me that Trump was intelligent enough to choose winning tactics and Harris was dumb enough to choose tactics that made her a loser in the Presidential battle.
A rather one dimensional view don't you think?
[rather like the author]
He got in on the populist vote. He spouted bollox and the people cheered loudly.
The more detailed view is that
a) he was facing possible imprisonment
b) he owes the city of New York some $500m (and E Jean Carrol $87m)
c) The only way to bury the Epstein files (at least whilst he is on office) was to control certain key agencies and key judicial processes to prevent them being released
d) a power hungry narcissist intent on vengeance of those who exposed him in courts
So, assemble sycophants and billionaires who would fund the presidential campaign (have a look at the donor list from heads of social media and mainstream media) and promise them tax breaks and more.
Of course he was going to lie through his teeth to make sure he was elected. Harris chose not to fight on such terms and would probably have faired better had she been proposed much earlier.
Musk put in a mere $270m. There was the FAA investigating a Space X rocket gone pop. All tests were grounded until the investigation was complete. Musk also had health and safety breaches under investigation (including a death at one of the Tesla factories), he was also being investigated for financial irregularity - all bumps in the road, an impediment to his 'progress'. First thing Musk does in his capacity was fire the heads of these agencies investigating him in one capacity or another, including the FAA and not long after that, another Space X rocket goes pop, grounding many flights for hours in Florida. This time, without investigation or consequence.
His appointment as the head of DOGE was very convenient wasn't it?
Now the billionaires get their tax breaks. It's crystal clear what their motives for financing Trump (and using their marketing powers through the media they own) whilst Trump get's a (temporary) immunity in return.
Add the powers that have driven Project 2025 - a white supremacist doctrine that wants to drive patriarchy and put power in the hands of the few. It is mixed up with the Christian Nationalists who are as blind as blind could be and who will always vote for the man who stands up for 'freedom' and takes exception to immigrants and live in the eternal paranoia of 'the deep state' and 'the enemy within'. They spout bile and they contrive adversaries, they are at the heart of the anti-abortion lobby and there's not a snowflakes chance in hell they will vote for Harris, she of a different ethnic group.
It's all here, very succinctly summarised by Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
The cocktail: Trumps willingness to lie and promise the earth in order to make sure he was elected, the billionaires in the pay of Pompeii and the drivers of the white supremacist ideological paper called Project 2025. It was hard for the bearers of a more realistic politic to win the presidential campaign in the face of lies, money and the media who whipped up sufficient numbers of a gullible electorate jumping on a wave of nationalistic hysteria and idolisation, blind to the inept, the facts and the motives of the orchestrators and the architects .