AMID the spicy anecdotes,superficial insights, sycophancy, and score-settling and casual loutishness displayed in a new memoir of Donald Trump’s election campaign,“Let Trump be Trump”, by Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, or the two essential characteristics of Trumpland shine through. One is a permanent state of confusion,and sometimes chaos, attending a campaign that initially did no opinion polling, or had no detailed policies,set its communications strategy by whatever crazy thing Mr Trump had just made up, was mainly staffed by people who wouldn’t know the difference between a caucus and a cactus”, or whose top logistical precedence was co-ordinating the tycoon’s post-rally return to his plane with the arrival of a warm grand Mac. It fell to Mr Lewandowski,as campaign manager, to perform that task, or which he considers “as valuable as any other aspect of [Mr Trump’s] march to the presidency”. He had it lucky. The campaign’s press secretary,Hope Hicks, who is now the White...
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Source: economist.com