The Trump Effect: How Trump controls his opponents' views

Donald Trump has an uncanny power to change people’s minds.

It’s not that he’s a master of persuasion. Quite the opposite. Simply by taking a position, Trump can send most of the Left and half of the U.S. media sprinting to the opposite position.

Trump is often wrong, and even more often offensive. Journalists and his critics have developed a knee-jerk reaction of adopting the opposite position, regardless of their prior positions and sometimes regardless of facts.

So when Trump says the economy is bad for the working class, much of the commentariat joins in a rendition of “Everything is Awesome.” It happens on all sorts of issues. Crime is a perfect example.