Love him or hate him, there is one thing any politician can learn from Donald Trump: if you don’t stand up for yourself, you lose your best advocate.
It sometimes happens that a leader has a policy disagreement with his own base. The traditional way of dealing with this is that politicians don’t do everything they say, and they don’t say everything they do. This means that they might give an emotional speech about a topic, but then act on the very same issue in a much more nuanced way.
Whether it’s the strike on Iran or the Epstein controversy, Donald Trump wouldn’t be Donald Trump if he didn’t handle it in his own way, which is very different from the traditional political approach. He’s actively scolding his own supporters. Watch the latest edition of The Campaign Doctor to find out more.