Trump's Insurgency

John Robb

What's most surprising to many pundits and analysts is that Trump has done this without presenting all of the detail plans, voluminous position papers, etc. that we've come to expect over the last couple of decades. He has simply refused to play by those rules, and he's not paid a price for it.  Trump is able to pull this off because he's not running a political campaign.  Instead, he's running an insurgency.

Not only that, it's a very specific type of insurgency.   A type of insurgency so effective, it held the US at bay in Iraq for years, drove oil prices to $147 a barrel in 2007, and toppled governments in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Libya.   This means he is playing by very different rules than his competitors.  Let me walk you through an example of what I mean by that. .....

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