Alternative methods of political analysis: the objective versus the subjective

In the past few days in a number of essays and interviews, I have said that my more accurate prognosis for the likely end of the de facto war between Iran and Israel than what my hyperventilating peers were saying (WWIII is around the corner!) was not due to my claiming to be smarter but to being more open minded than the herd. The herd is deeply prejudiced against Donald Trump and ready to pounce on his every utterance or action as being ‘stupid’ or ‘ill-informed’ or just plain ‘sick.’