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from that nymag link from the prior page, this quote in that book from Katie Walsh, initial deputy chief of staff:
"He didn’t process information in any conventional sense. He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate. He trusted his own expertise — no matter how paltry or irrelevant — more than anyone else’s. He was often confident, but he was just as often paralyzed, less a savant than a figure of sputtering and dangerous insecurities, whose instinctive response was to lash out and behave as if his gut, however confused, was in fact in some clear and forceful way telling him what to do. It was, said Walsh, “like trying to figure out what a child wants.” "
so yeah. probably in the same way he handles business affairs, nothing is read everything is from the gut and based on his perception of the person he is talking to. and that person being below him.
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His true strength has nothing to do with ideology or strategy but with his intuition and perception. He basically has the best “dog ears” of anyone since Nixon; his ability to rile up the base is uncanny. Something like the controversy over football players kneeling hardly registered to most people in America. Yet to those 20% of Americans who are Trump or Die people and to another probably 20% quietly harboring at least some racist notions as well as discontent about their own lot in life it was absolutely on the money. And sometimes he can do that for non-prejudice related things too.