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• “If you watched the entire election cycle and concluded that Trump was nothing but a lucky clown, you missed one of the most important perceptual shifts in the history of humankind.
• I’ll fix that for you in this book.” 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.