One to a greater extent than valence trait to go: competence. Remember, the enquiry isn't nearly how competent Clinton was, but nearly how competent she was relative to Trump.
I won't bother amongst the bullshit, similar Benghazi, or the other mistaken scandals that Republicans own got tried to drum upwards to a greater extent than or less Clinton together with what she did correct or wrong. There are 2 existent hits on Clinton's competence: the Republic of Iraq War vote, together with the electronic mail thing. Yes, at that topographic point is a existent competence lawsuit on the latter. Not a criminal issue, but a competence issue.
Let's start amongst the Republic of Iraq War vote. Given what nosotros knew at the time, should nosotros own got invaded Iraq? Donald Trump insisted during the drive that he had a competence payoff over Clinton because he knew,
in advance, that it was a mistake, whereas Clinton voted to invade. She did vote to invade. Most people-- basically, everybody except John McCain together with his rentboy, Lindsey Graham-- at this indicate admit that, given what nosotros know
now, nosotros shouldn't own got gone in, including Clinton. But, what nearly given the data nosotros had inward 2002 together with 2003?
This, of course, was 1 of Trump's most famous lies. Here he is on Howard Stern's radio present inward 2002...
So, no, Trump didn't own got the foresight to oppose invading Republic of Iraq when Clinton supported it. No competence payoff there.
Then, there's the electronic mail thing. Yes, Clinton supporters, this is a existent competence issue. There was no crime. This was a bullshit scandal, but had Clinton been a normal employee, treatment data similar that would own got been a fireable offense.
And that form of conduct tin pose national safety at risk.
Because, ya' know, emails tin get, um, hacked.
By...
... Russia.
...
... From whom Trump volition
obviously keep
all national safety secrets safe.
On the full general lawsuit of competence, though,
Clinton actually did have some advice from Colin Powell on... non doing everything on the State Department servers. She took bad advice, together with took it to an extreme. That's non the form of thing yous desire a president to do.
Serious point, then: produce yous trust Trump to travel past times away along national safety secrets? Clinton's
motive was to travel secretive. She wanted her data on a someone server. The motive backfired.
With Trump, the lawsuit volition travel equally follows: he tweets hence many lies that he could let on national safety secrets, through twitter, together with you'd never know it! I'm beingness serious. This is the poker strategy of knowing that yous can't travel past times away along a poker face, hence yous merely human activeness similar a jackass
all the time and your conduct when yous bluff looks merely similar your conduct when your manus is good.
Whether or non Trump tin travel trusted to travel past times away along secrets from Putin inward other contexts is some other matter. His debt to Putin inward the election is small, but there. Putin actually did intervene inward the election to travail to larn Trump into the White House, together with everyone knows it. And everyone
should have understood it going into the ballot booth. When the DNC hack was revealed, nosotros all knew it was Russia, together with when it happened,
Trump was already talking nearly non defending our NATO allies if Russian Federation invaded them, having already invaded Crimea. This wasn't a hole-and-corner at the time. Making matters worse,
his drive managing director was deeply entangled amongst Putin's pawns inward Ukraine. None of this was secret. Clinton didn't travel past times away along her emails on a server that was secure from Russia, but Trump's connections to Russian Federation own got
always been the form of thing that would brand Joe McCarthy's caput explode,
Scanners-style.
Then, there's this.
I'm going to travel past times away along using this clip because at that topographic point is no getting to a greater extent than or less how troubling this is. Donald Trump doesn't empathise that nuclear weapons are a deterrent rather than a starting fourth dimension strike weapon. That is a competence lawsuit far beyond anything facing Clinton equally a candidate. That is a competence lawsuit far beyond anything facing whatever candidate whatever political party has nominated inward the nuclear age. If yous produce non empathise nuclear weapons, nuclear deterrence together with the stakes involved, yous own got no draw of piece of employment concern anywhere close the White House. When I write that Donald Trump is the most incompetent candidate nosotros own got ever seen, this is what I mean. There are other aspects of populace policy that Clinton understands. There are none that Trump understands. Clinton understands the basic surgical procedure of government, spell Trump does not. None of this is on the degree of Trump's failure to empathise nuclear weapons.
Beyond that, the concept of deterrence, equally explained past times Thomas Schelling inward his Nobel Prize-winning book,
The Strategy of Conflict, is hence cardinal to all political matters that a politico incapable of grasping it volition neglect to grasp pretty much anything.
Has Clinton read Schelling? I'd bet she has...
Competence advantage? Clinton, past times a long shot.
But, what did
voters think nearly it? Well, I estimate that'll travel Part XII...
