Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Garbage Fire

[L. Coyote]

The Good News Is That Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Strategic and Managerial Garbage Fire
By Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait

Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. There is, however, an upside: Trump’s campaign is an absolute garbage fire. By all accounts it is the most organizationally and strategically inept campaign for a successful major-party nominee in recorded history. ........

.... Trump has eschewed any use of analytics to target voters or competitive areas. Indeed, he has fixated bizarrely on plans to compete in New York and California, two states where any Republican faces hopeless odds against an entrenched Democratic electorate. He is currently in North Dakota for reasons nobody fully understands. He attacks fellow Republicans for no apparent reason. ............

He's a reality-television performer ... Fortunately, many of the same qualities that would make Trump epically dangerous in the presidency — his impulsive ignorance, blustering arrogance, and contempt for data — also make him unlikely to obtain it.

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[Journeyman]

1. Sure seems that way from my vantage point (albeit, I'm in the cheap seats) . . .

[PatSeg]

2. Seems that he goes

where he can get the most attention. He is addicted to attention - strategy and organization, not so much.

[pansypoo53219]

3. COMPLACENCY is loser thinking.

don't ASSUME. the teevee gnewz is jonesing for stupid again. it makes THEM look smarter. the gnewz do not CARE.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. ^^^^^

yep.

tv gnewz.... LoL!!!

[immoderate]

4. Whew! For a moment there, I was expecting -- the unexpected.

--imm

[MisterFred]

5. Underestimate Trump at our peril.

You think voters in Ohio and Florida aren't going to notice all the media coverage Trump pulls in when he's in New York and California?

Of course they will.

Trump has already successfully cultivated the teflon-jujitsu that causes people to ignore the crazy shit he says and pay attention to the occasions he says something they agree with.

And he's running against the only politician in the country who inspires as much hatred as he does. One who, to be frank, had a hell of a lot of trouble against a no-name backwater upstart (and I say that as a Bernie supporter!).

I don't expect Trump to win. But most of the ingredients for an upset are already present.

[Moostache]

9. Agree on underestimate, Disagree on expectations...

IF the Clinton campaign does not undergo a metamorphosis that would make Kafka proud they are going to run straight into the same fly trap that snared 17 other GOP candidates and made the idiots throwing money at Jeb! look to be every inch the fools that they are...

Trump is not a political candidate, he is a punchline-generating, insult-hurling, middle-finger extended shout in the dark. He is rage incarnate and the reasons that Hillary could never shut up, shout down or run out Bernie Sanders in the primaries is the EXACT reason she is 100% capable of turning Peter Pumpkin-Candidate into the next President of the United States of America.

I am not a Hillary first supporter. She is qualified and she is also an inordinately inept campaigner and speech giver. She is about as rousing a public speaker as someone reading off BINGO ball numbers, but she is likely our only hope to avoid truly tragic consequences. I am frustrated that she has essentially won the nomination as far back as January, but I support the Democratic Party as the only rational course of action available to me.

IF the Clinton camp cannot bring the party together AND generate serious passion in the base of the party and turn-out on election day, she will lose and she will lose badly...maybe not Mondale-bad, but Dukakis is in play...if I were in charge of her campaign, I would siphon off nearly ALL TV ad money and put it entirely into Get Out The Vote staff and efforts. Let's face it...there is ZERO reason to run ads this time around. The press is going to lead EVERY day and EVERY broadcast with whatever the hell Trump says and how Clinton responds. What the fuck good is an ad that people tune out going to do against THAT? Ask Jeb! if you doubt me...

The current path is a Hillary defeat and by an alarmingly easy margin. Her numbers are free-falling and her negatives are obscenely high. This is a losing hand unless we are playing draw poker and can discard alot of negatives after the convention.

[GoneOffShore]

12. A remarkably sensible analysis.

In talking to people in Philadelphia I'm finding very few HRC supporters. But this is just anecdotal.
I've only seen one Drumpf hat and I think(I hope) it was being worn ironically by a mixed race guy with piercings and tattoos.
Lots of Bernie stickers.

And, as you say her numbers are in free fall.

She'll run to the right if she gets the nomination.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. K&R

[Live and Learn]

7. Don't underestimate the stupidity of the American people. They love actors. nt

[sorefeet]

8. Ya know, I try not to underestimate

Trumpty Dumpty. But I can't understand how in the year 2016, the American people could allow such a bigoted, blatant liar, who knows absolutely nothing about government, foreign affairs, health, hunger, housing, jobs or much of anything else that would matter to an ordinary citizen of this country, to be elected the president. Are Americans truly that ignorant or just that hateful.

[Moostache]

10. "Are Americans truly that ignorant or just that hateful?"

Yes.
and
Yes.

[TNNurse]

11. I generally can no longer laugh about him

but that made me giggle. Thanks.

[pampango]

14. Does he EVER any policy in a constructive manner?

Every politician uses zings and one-liners at times but that is ALL that Trump EVER does.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. Even with all these readers a kick back to the top of page 1 upsets plans of some people

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. In a radio morning show, I just heard a python bit a man's "candy shop"

According to reliable sources, pythons would not attack Trump in a non-sexually designated restroom, because of his small hands. Trump likes slinging certain biological compounds. Secret Service will soon have to protect his "small hands" from pythons in the toilet.

[Angel Martin]

17. Trump is a "no" vote for people

who have no faith in politicians.

The more he is portrayed as a destructive monster, the more they want to vote for him.

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/05/23/the-meaning-of-mr-trump/

[Jeffersons Ghost]

18. You are partially correct: He plans to destroy the "Free Press"

This quote from your link still sticks in my craw:
"Just as Kerry made his Vietnam service the cornerstone of his campaign (at a time when the shock of 9/11 still made Americans suspicious of candidates without very tough national security credentials), Secretary Clinton has made feminism the foundation of hers. The Swift Boat Veterans’ assault on Kerry’s war record was successful enough to undercut public confidence in the essential premise of his campaign."