Former and Soon-To-Be-Current President Donald Trump defied Offensive Karma to beat Kamala Harris and win the US presidential election.
Trump’s victory mirrors Adland in a variety of ways, including:
• Culturally clueless Old White Guys regularly elevate to positions of power, even after demonstrating questionable abilities to lead. Displaying blatant racism, predatory sexism, wanton lawlessness, clinical narcissism, cruel bullying, and intentional indifference will not adversely affect Old White Guys’ advancement either.
• When Old White Guys assume top positions, their first move is to clean house, replacing able and proven people with suspect cronies, and swapping established processes with dysfunctional disruption.
• Iconic management expert Peter F. Drucker stated: “[A]lthough followers will forgive a leader much, they will never forgive a lack of integrity.” Like Old White Guys in Adland, Trump did not let an abysmal lack of integrity impede his ascent.
• Author and Anti-Racist Activist Ibram X. Kendi wrote: “From the Junior Black Americans of Achievement series onward, I had been taught that racist ideas cause racist policies. That ignorance and hate cause racist ideas. That the root problem of racism is ignorance and hate.
But that gets the chain of events exactly wrong. The root problem—from Prince Henry to President Trump—has always been the self-interest of racist power. Powerful economic, political, and cultural self-interest—the primitive accumulation of capital in the case of royal Portugal and subsequent slave traders—has been behind racist policies.”
Systemic racism is a powerful thang. ‘Nuff said.
• Women are underrepresented in leadership roles. Yet women of color are woefully underrepresented, despite holding qualifications far exceeding those of White male leaders. Indeed, women of color must satisfy unreasonable expectations and impossible standards—far above the expectations and standards applied to White male and White female peers—just to be considered for leadership. In short, if Harris had been a White man, or even a White woman, Trump would be preparing for scheduled sentencing associated with his criminal convictions—which he will now disintegrate via his president-elect privileges.
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