Episode #9: What Trump Got Right & What The Dems Got Wrong

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Ever since he burst back onto the political scene back in 2015, politicians, pundits and the general populace has been trying to figure out what makes Donald Trump tick. While many claim to understand the motivations of the president, few believed he’d actually win. Not so with Roger Martin. The former Dean of Rotman and our own Institute Director viewed Trump’s primary run through a business lens. By the beginning of 2016, Roger felt so strongly that Trump would clinch the nomination that he not only penned an op-ed about it, he bet a friend $10,000 that it would happen. Given his certaintude, what exactly was it that Roger saw in Trump? Notes: Roger Martin's HBR article on how Trump won https://hbr.org/2017/01/how-the-attacks-on-trump-reinforce-his-strategy David Frum's cover story from the Atlantic, "How to Build an Autocracy" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/ Syrian refugees in Canada series from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/world/canada/syrian-refugees.html?_r=0 "What's Yours is Mine" by Tom Slee http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/whats-yours-is-mine-by-tom-slee/ Music used in this episode: "Steppin'" by Wake "The Last Ones" by Jahzzar "Whispering Through" by Asura