Easy Target - Everyone's out to get me :(

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You have to wonder about someone with presidential ambitions who plays the victim quite as much as the Taipei Mayor. 

I really don’t like to keep sniping at him, but he makes himself such an easy target. 

He is politically inept, and by implication, so are his team of advisors and minders. If he thinks always playing the underdog will garner him votes, he is mistaken. It’s sad to see someone with presidential ambitions to get the core value of political leadership so wrong.   

I’ve lost count of the number of times he has accused others of targeting him, misunderstanding him, misquoting him, misrepresenting him or just picking on him.  

He’s not wrong, everyone does pick on him. That’s because he is politically weak and really does not get how politics works. He must be surrounded by a team of incompetents who have only a tiny understanding of the cut-and-thrust of democratic politics. 

If he really wants to be President of Taiwan, the first thing he needs to do is sack his entire team ahead of 2024.

To be allowed to be photographed apparently on his own on a chilly parade ground on television and in front of the entire population was a political faux pas. The one thing a potential leader does not do is look isolated. But let’s be charitable and suppose circumstances were beyond his, or his minders, control and he could help but be standing there apparently on his own. 

In itself that was a political slip up. But he made it multiple degrees worse after the photo was published by making out he was put there on purpose to make him look bad and play the victim. This really is pathetic. 

What was his team thinking to allow him to be in that position? What was he thinking in allowing himself to be pushed into that position? What were they thinking when they complained about it after the event? 

You can only come to the conclusion that he is not cut out for political life, the team around him have little understanding of how to get him to the presidency, or he is just delusional and somehow thinks the victim image will somehow gain a sympathy vote. He is wrong.

Imagine this guy in talks with Biden or Putin…the mind boggles. 

Tinkerty Tonk...

你不得不懷疑任何有總統野心的人，會像台北市長一樣經常扮演受害者。我真的不喜歡一直評論他，但他一再讓自己成為如此容易攻擊的目標。

他在政治上是無能的，這意味著他的顧問和幕僚也是如此。如果他認為總是扮演被壓迫的一方會為他贏得選票，那他就錯了。看到有總統野心的人把政治領導的核心價值弄錯，真是令人難過。

我已經數不清他有多少次指責別人針對他、誤解他、錯誤引用他、歪曲他或只是挑他毛病。

他沒錯，的確很多人都在挑他的毛病，因為他在政治上很弱，也真的不明白政治是如何運作的。他肯定是被一群政治無能者包圍，他們對民主政治的切入點及其運作方式知之甚少。如果他真的想成為台灣總統，他需要做的第一件事就是在2024年之前解僱他的整個團隊。

被拍到在寒冷的廣場上和在所有人面前孤獨一人在政治上是尷尬的，潛在領導者不會做的一件事就是看起來孤立無援。但是讓我們仁慈一點，假設當時的情況超出他或他的幕僚可以控制範圍，他沒有選擇只能自己站在那裡。

這本身已經是個政治失誤了，但在照片發布後認為出發點是為了要讓他出醜難堪，扮演被害者角色使情況變得更糟，這真的很可悲。

讓他處於這種狀況的幕僚在想什麼？允許幕僚把自己放入這種狀況的他在想什麼？此事之後還抱怨，他們在想什麼？

你只能得出結論，就是他不適合政治生活，他的團隊對如何讓他成為總統一無所知，或者他只是在妄想，不知何故他認為受害者形象會以某種方式獲得同情票，他錯了。

想像一下，這個人正在與拜登或普丁交談……我難以想像。

Tinkerty Tonk...掰掰。