This is a neighbour to the “Shirley Exception”. Let’s call it the “Shirley Prerequisite.”
People will hear an idea they broadly like, and rather than actually examine how its going to be implemented, they’ll simply assume that it will be the way that they would implement it, because to them that’s obviously the only logical way to do it. Sometimes their way is the logical way, sometimes it isn’t, but the point is that they can’t get out of their head enough to consider any other possibility.
In this case, the possibility left unconsidered is that Trump is a fucking moron.
This is a neighbour to the “Shirley Exception”. Let’s call it the “Shirley Prerequisite.”
People will hear an idea they broadly like, and rather than actually examine how its going to be implemented, they’ll simply assume that it will be the way that they would implement it, because to them that’s obviously the only logical way to do it. Sometimes their way is the logical way, sometimes it isn’t, but the point is that they can’t get out of their head enough to consider any other possibility.
In this case, the possibility left unconsidered is that Trump is a fucking moron.