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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe good news.
The Trump campaign is becoming an outright catastrophe...A candidate with a lethal combination of dreadful strategic instincts and absolute certainty of his own brilliance. Trumps inexperience in politics has shown itself in many ways, such as his utter ignorance about policy and how the U.S. government works. It also means that when confronted with new situations, he often does something politically foolish, as when he responded to the Orlando shooting by congratulating himself for predicting that there would one day be another terrorist attack. And while for a time we kept hearing that he was going to pivot to the general election, instead he seems to be running as though hes still trying to persuade his own supporters to stay with him. Those supporters comprise a plurality of a minority of the whole electorate.
Perhaps even more importantly, unlike some neophyte candidates, Trump not only doesnt know what he doesnt know, but also insists that he doesnt need to know it. Whatever deep insecurities drive his constant preening bluster, he isnt going to let anyone tell him that hes anything less than a genius and things arent going great. Which means that as the campaign goes on and his situation gets worse, hell be exceedingly unlikely to make the kind of changes he needs to reverse his fortunes.
Trump is no stranger to failure, but in his life as a businessman he could segregate those failures from the rest of his enterprises, at least enough to keep moving forward and find other ways to make money. He could fail at the casino business, or the steak business, or the vodka business, or the magazine business, or the airline business, or the football business, or the real estate seminar business, or the vitamin pyramid scheme business, and maintain the viability of his overall brand. But he has never been on a stage like this one before. He didnt have hundreds of reporters on the steak beat scrutinizing every twist and turn in the decline of Trump Steaks and putting the results of their reporting on every front page in America.
But now he does, and he cant just drop one scheme and move on to the next one. In that interview with Hallie Jackson, Trump said, We really havent started. We start pretty much after the convention, during and after. But his problem isnt that he hasnt started; its that he started a year ago digging himself into a hole its going to be awfully hard to climb out of.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/06/20/the-trump-campaign-is-becoming-an-outright-catastrophe/
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The good news. (Original Post)
mia
Jun 2016
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tonyt53
(5,737 posts)1. I can envision Trump dropping out in October when faced with an impending landslide loss
Hillary will undoubtedly wear him out during their debates. She will pills him off intentionally. When she doesn't respond like the GOP clowns did in the GOP primaries, Trump will only become even more enraged. No matter how much the GOP works with him, when he gets pissed off, the real Trump will return. He could easily drop out of the race on October, when the real polling starts to matter. A record-setting Hillary landslide setting up would just embolden him to drop out and sat that everybody just worked against him. For the GOP it would bet to late. Trump would still be on the ballots.
longship
(40,416 posts)3. There's no way he drops out.
His ego won't allow such a thing. The GOP has to admit reality; they are stuck with him.
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Oh wow! The WaPo is hitting it hard.
Brutal! As it should be.
quickesst
(6,283 posts)4. And he just told Lewandowski...
.,..YOU'RE FIRED!!!
MFM008
(19,837 posts)5. GOP mess breaks my heart
Any one else sad as I am ?
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)6. The Biggest Loser. n/t