Rule number one: Tell them they're smart (especially if they're voting for you)
Rule number two: Tell them you're listening to the, (when in reality you're doing the exact opposite)
The vice president's "insane ideas" comment was flipped right back at him on social media.
uk.yahoo.com
"“There is this crazy idea in the Democratic Party that if you just repeat insane ideas, eventually the American people are going to believe them,” the vice president said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired Monday.
“We actually think the American people are smart and we should listen to them rather than preach at them and I think that’s the core right now of the president’s political strength,” Vance added."
So, Trump's idea is that you win an election by saying stuff. Then you ignore everything you said and do whatever you want to do. Here's a quote of Trump saying that very same thing after "listening to the people" who wanted Hillary locked up, and then told his supporters "you're smart for knowing I wasn't actually going to do this, right?" When actually they thought he would do it, so he's telling them they're stupid, while pretending to call them smart.
‘It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about,’ Trump told The New York Times.
www.politico.eu
"“Look, there’s a tradition in American politics that after you win an election, you sort of put things behind you,” he told reporters inside Trump Tower. “And if that’s the decision he reached, that’s perfectly consistent with sort of a historical pattern of things come up, you say a lot of things, even some bad things might happen, and then you can sort of put it behind you in order to unite the nation.”"