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ArnoldRimmer said:
Neodegenerate said:

It is really hard to take an opinion like this seriously when 1. you have to resort to name-calling with Clinton and 2. you blatantly ignore the fact that part of Trump's rise to business "success" has included muiltiple bankruptcies designed to eliminate the massive debts he accrued through his business failings.

Well, sorry about the name calling. Let me hand you your well-deserverd first stone.

But apart from that, your reasoning about me allegedly "ignoring" Trump's economic failures is just silly, sorry. Apparently you didn't understand the point I tried to make, and actually just repeated the same error in reasoning I tried to point out. My whole point was:

In order to prove that person X is *better* or worse than person Y in a particular respect, it's ultimately irrelevant how good or bad person X actually is (in absolute measures), because "better" refers to a relative comparison. Even if Trump was the second worst person in the whole world when it comes to economics, he could still be better than Killary.

And considering that it would be quite hard for most people to accurately judge both Killarys and Trumps economic capabilities, it's anything but surprising that many people would intuitively expect a millionaire businessman like Trump to know more about economics than Killary. And this is not about about Trump or Killary specifically, this is a general pattern I'm sure you will find all around the globe and at earlier US elections as well:

A candidate who is a millionare businessman will intuitively be expected to be better with economics than a candidate who isn't.

And here you are still resorting to name-calling while attempting to make a viable point.  There is a difference, by the way, in the style and structure of economics that Trump has used (again, the bankruptcies) to gain and maintain his wealth, and the economics needed to run a government.

Not sure if you are aware though, that Hillary is also a millionaire and has an understanding of both government and economics.