If a nerd won the presidency, it wouldn’t be great because they would say “true” things. It would be great because they would actually be concerned with figuring out what is true. They might actually change their minds if they realized they were wrong.
If you agree with Trump, then let’s allow that he “says true things.” That doesn’t mean that he embodies what would be great about a nerd in the Oval Office. If Trump says true things, it’s because it gets him the support of certain segments of the population. If he had evidence that one of his beliefs was false, but his base still believed it, I’m quite certain he would go on professing the false belief. Now I don’t actually think Trump would even recognize his belief to be wrong in the presence of evidence, and I think a substantial fraction of politicians are little better than he.
The article didn’t claim that Obama was — rather, it claimed that Obama’s path to the presidency could be emulated by nerds.
If a nerd won the presidency, it wouldn’t be great because they would say “true” things. It would be great because they would actually be concerned with figuring out what is true. They might actually change their minds if they realized they were wrong.
If you agree with Trump, then let’s allow that he “says true things.” That doesn’t mean that he embodies what would be great about a nerd in the Oval Office. If Trump says true things, it’s because it gets him the support of certain segments of the population. If he had evidence that one of his beliefs was false, but his base still believed it, I’m quite certain he would go on professing the false belief. Now I don’t actually think Trump would even recognize his belief to be wrong in the presence of evidence, and I think a substantial fraction of politicians are little better than he.
The article didn’t claim that Obama was — rather, it claimed that Obama’s path to the presidency could be emulated by nerds.