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The Problem With Talent and Skills in Politics
The problem is people's talents and skills maybe don't match. Maybe don't match the difficulty of doing that. So in politics, I still think if you pitted Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton it would be a close race. The inspiring person of equal talent beats the cynical person. That's my hypothesis. Well, Kennedy beat Nixon unless you think that Cook County threw that election. And Obama was elected to two terms with, as he put it, a skinny kid with a funny name. It does seem possible. But I remember having a conversation with Peter Teal, the Silicon Valley billionaire and right wing thinker Trump and man who caused a run on Silicon Valley bank. He told me about 10
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