According to Sundance all policies and proposals have a “downside“, there’s no such thing as a policy proposal with benefit to all and harm to none. This empirical truth is toxic to professional politicians – therefore they spend an inordinate amount of time using pretzel logic to avoid it. As a direct consequence of political avoidance, the media love to use the downside as a weapon. Now for the first time in recent political memory Donald Trump represents a candidacy that is unafraid of their spear; and as a consequence, immune to the damage. And then he uses their “spear” turning it around and using it against them leaving them with nothing!