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Octavian's real brilliance is political manipulation: being emperor for forty years required balancing Rome's political factions.
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Political manipulation
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Jiang says Trump's strength is not intellect or writing but world-class political manipulation and control of optics.
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"okay so i mean it's going to be hard not to fall into the trap of you know is it is this what happened..."
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"...But in terms of, like, personality politics, in terms of, like, political manipulation, in terms of, like, controlling optics, then I think he's the..."
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"I think he's a super athlete in terms of political manipulation and controlling political perception. Okay? And that's the idea of game theory. Like,..."
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"Because Octavian was a brilliant political manipulator. Okay? Being an emperor is very hard. He was emperor for 40 years. So, he had to..."
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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