Welcome to politics by faith. Thanks for being here. Today's episode I want to talk about

Scott Adams. Scott Adams passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 68. If you don't know

Scott Adams, he was the author of the Dilbert cartoons, but more recently he turned into a political commentator.

And I believe his legacy will be something like he was one of the first people in our culture

to support Donald Trump for president and willing to lose everything because of it.

All of his newspapers, all the newspapers canceled his comic strips and all that, all the

speaking engagements because he came out very early in 2015 and supported Donald Trump.

But he did it in a very interesting way where he caused people to look at what was happening

in a very different way where there are a lot of people laughing at him and a lot of people

hating him he analyzed Trump seriously not even from a Trump's left to right or a conservative

liberal or right or wrong but from a Trump's left or right or a conservative liberal or right or wrong,

but from a look at Trump.

Look at him.

He's a master of persuasion.

That was his argument from the very beginning.

And I think he really helped people understand how Trump talked and how he acted and stand that in a really powerful way.

A couple of examples here.

Here he is.

This is Scott Adams talking about the linguistic kill shot, he called it.

People in the world, living people, were masters of persuasion.

They've got a linguistic gift for influencing people, and they're using actual technique.

What I saw in Trump was someone who was highly trained, and that a lot of the things that the

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