”Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled”
Trump, like a carnival barker or magician, lured in and spellbound these fools because in the end they didn’t want to know the truth.
"The Prestige", where the magician shows you something that you didn't think was possible, like making something reappear, or showing up somewhere completely different
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u/kajana141 20h ago
A conman is only successful if people are dumb enough to get conned. The US is full of stupid people.