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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump’s Campaign Might Actually Implode
By Jonathan Chait
Over the last 24 hours, Donald Trump has insulted his partys former presidential nominee (former prisoner of war John McCain, for allegedly turning his back on veterans!), its current Republican speaker of the House, the parents of a slain war hero, the capital city of the state that is the linchpin of his electoral strategy, and a baby. None of these statements would make a list of Donald Trumps 50 worst campaign gaffes. And yet their cumulative impact may be reaching a tipping point that causes his party to abandon him.
Trumps wild unfitness for elected office, let alone the highest one in the land, has been manifest for years. Evidence continues to pour forth at an astonishing pace. Last night, his still-loyal aide Corey Lewandowski revived the conspiracy theory that President Obama has hidden a secret foreign birth that would disqualify him as president. Joe Scarborough reports that, in foreign-policy briefings, Trump has repeatedly asked why it is that the United States cant use nuclear weapons.
We already knew Trump was an ignorant, manically aggressive conspiracy theorist, which has caused a handful of them to withhold endorsements. What has especially pained Republicans is his lack of political acuity. His mishandling of Khizr Khans speech to the Democratic National Convention has reportedly caused grave misgivings among his staff. The Khan speech was an extraordinarily moving expression of the moral case that Trumps ethno-nationalist ideology betrays the American idea. On a purely political level, though, the speech may not have amounted to much it was delivered before network coverage of the conventions began, and might have lived on only in social-media circulation if Trump hadnt responded with a series of deranged attacks on the parents of an American war hero.
From the standpoint of the staffers working to make Trump president, this behavior was worse than immoral. It was downright unprofessional. John Harwood reports that Paul Manafort, the supposed adult in charge of the campaign who can curtail the candidates self-destructive impulses, is not challenging Trump anymore. Mailing it in, and the other staff is (metaphorically, one assumes) suicidal. Ali Vitali confirms Harwoods report, and adds that the situation is way worse than people realize. According to Dana Bash, these staffers feel like they are wasting their time.
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Donald Trump’s Campaign Might Actually Implode (Original Post)
n2doc
Aug 2016
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Jerry442
(1,265 posts)1. Would people close to Trump throw him under a bus to save the country?
Speaking figuratively, of course.
liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)2. This...
ksoze
(2,068 posts)3. Let's hope not. He is getting HRC elected.
If he is gone, someone else will emerge and could sweep up all the lost souls. Better he implodes on Nov 7.