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I think there are two camps of people when it comes to Trump. You're both wrong, and for the same reason.

The first camp (the MAGA or MIGAtards) think Trump is some sort of super-genius that is going to save America. I don't need to explain why these people are wrong, hopefully.

The other camp (let's call them the "blackpilled" or "jewpilled") recognize that Trump is probably a bought-and-paid-for asset of the jews, and is probably part of this global conspiracy to eliminate all white people from earth and destroy Christianity forever.

The reason why this second camp is wrong is because you think the jews are smarter than they really are. Did they have success with their subversion? Absolutely. However, I don't think this was because of their super high IQ (not) or because of their nefarious tactics or even Satan or whatever telling them what to do.

A lot of people think that real life is like a chess game, where you can plan out your moves and counter-moves and where you have to see 20 moves in the future if you want to have a chance at beating a chess master. This simply isn't true. It's not even really true for chess. Great chess masters can't see more than a few moves ahead. Even the best chess programs can make bad moves because they can't see too far in the future even with all the compute power in the world. The point is that if you dive really deep into how these masters and engines really work, they need some way to "prune" possible future paths so that overall, they are really only considering a few possible decent options, and choosing the ones that seem to favor them the most.

I remember watching Magnus Carlsen play several years ago, and what made him great wasn't that he could compute 21 moves in the future while his opponent could only do 20, but that he prepared obscure lines of play that he knew his opponent wasn't as prepared for, all the while he was totally prepared for all of the lines that his opponent might make. In short, it came down to a sort of slugout between two chess teams, and Magnus won because he simply had better prep and a slightly better strategy.

Anyway, the quote by Virgil really hit home about how Trump is a genius is his own right, and why the way you think he is a genius is not how it works.

Trump is successful because he doesn't give up. He doesn't expect his plans to work. He doesn't quit when they don't. Sometimes he is guessing, just like everyone has to from time to time. If you read his books and talk with people who know him, he's always asking important questions about decisions he has to make to people who don't know much better than he does. He really has no idea what is going to happen in the future, but that doesn't bother him, because he knows that he'll figure something out when he gets to it.

It's not really that hard. Perseverance. Endurance. Not giving up. Getting down every time you are knocked down. This is the genius.

Afterwards, people invent stories about what really happened and how so-and-so was a genius because he was able to see what no one else saw, when really the guy just kept going and trying different things until something worked.

I recall reading Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul and the feeling I got about the guy was he had a plan, or rather, intended results, and he just kept plowing forward until he got the results he wanted. He didn't let things set him back. He didn't give up when most people would throw in the towel. He didn't rest on his laurels. He just kept going forward no matter what happened.

That's the kind of thing that makes men work and make them great. Not that they see more than other people, but that they don't give up.

So don't give up. No matter what. Do not accept failure.

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