Who is Trump's base?

[Ravenman]

@DesertDog

I’ve mentioned this before, but the Extra Credit folks on YouTube have been running a series for a few weeks called Extra Politics wherein they compare politics to more ordinary game playing. This episode that distinguishes between Explicit and Implicit rules in both games in politics. The analogy they use is chess. There are a lot of explicit rules in chess but nothing that says you cannot punch your opponent in the mouth. Instead, that is an implicit rule; in society, people don’t belt other people in the mouth without provocation, if even then. So, yeah, ttechnically someone can win a chess game by belting their opponent then claiming there’s no rule that say they can’t do so, but it’s a scuzzy way of winning the game.

Those nerds – putting this principle in the context of chess! Ha!

To real Americans, this is known as the “Air Bud Rule,” in that the rulebook for basketball doesn’t say that dogs can’t play.