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I've been listening to him off and on since the beginning of November.
His episode 1246 is titled: Why Trump should resign today...
At the same time he has a book from 2017 titled "Win Bigly Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter"
"Adams was one of the earliest public figures to predict Trump’s win, doing so a week after Nate Silver put Trump’s odds at 2 percent in his FiveThirtyEight.com blog. The mainstream media regarded Trump as a novelty and a sideshow. But Adams recognized in Trump a level of persuasion you only see once in a generation.
Trump triggered massive cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias on both the left and the right. We’re hardwired to respond to emotion, not reason. We might listen to 10 percent of a speech—a hand gesture here, a phrase there—and if the right buttons are pushed, we decide we agree with the speaker and invent reasons to justify that decision after the fact.
The point isn’t whether Trump was right or wrong, good or bad. Win Bigly goes beyond politics to look at persuasion tools that can work in any setting—the same ones Adams saw in Steve Jobs when he invested in Apple decades ago."
I haven't read it, take from this comment what you will.
I read it as a romanticized version of Adams taking a bet on Trump early on. Numerous of his bets have turned wrong, but overall his odds are fairly honorable I would say. Now he can get the good role in saying he "predicted" Trump victory. No. He just placed a bet. Numerous fringe political analysts also betted on Trump at the same time, we just don't hear about them because they are less known than Adams.
My belief is Adams listened to these fringe analysts' arguments and they convinced him enough so that he went public with the idea, adding some of his own genuine take in the process (the "persuasion" thing).
Among his failures, he recently "guaranteed" in early 2020 that the Dems presidential candidate would be a woman. Interestingly enough, nowadays he doesn't talk as much about this losing bet.