On the outside, it appears as if DT is throwing his own race for the presidency...
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In a way, this is true, but not intentionally so. His problem is that he's allowing his own ego to self-sabotage his campaign.
He tells everyone that only her can do this or that, he forces the Republican Party into becoming a cult of his own personality rather than a major political party, his thin-skinned responses to hit many critics and his annoyance on times when the spot light doesn't focus exclusively on himself, these are choices that he himself has made without ever regarding the consequences to his own words and actions.
Most voters want the candidate the vote for to inspire them, to at least have the feeling that such a candidate speaks for their concerns and they one one that they believe is looking out for themselves. As Trump makes EVERYTHING all about himself, more and more people are realizing that he doesn't care about anyone else.
Practically everything that DT say has some potentially negative impact for himself. Criticizing Gold Star families earns the ire of veterans groups. His pledge to repeal the ACA earns the fear of people who have benefitted from the program that he's going to take their health insurance away. Those who are concerned with America's place in the world are rightly afraid that a DT presidency will destroy our reputation and put the lives of Americans at unnecessary risk. People who are not white, Christian males anticipate a DT controlled government to engage in a process of systematic oppression against people who are not white, Christian males.
In response, his surrogates are alleging that the proper response to DT's rhetoric is that no one should take anything he says seriously. That any concern about his outrageous and utterly self-destructive statements is merely blowing things out of proportion. The point of this is to inoculate the voters into becoming more numb to DT than what people already are. Don't pay any attention to that, they say, besides rather than attacking, they're only defending. Again, this is self-sabotage. But just as long as the attention on on himself, however negatively, nothing else matters to himself.
DT, in doing all of this, is performing a type of political distillation. The heat of his rhetoric is burning off the voter base who one routinely vote for Republicans, leaving a greatly reduced, yet highly fervent cult of followers who would support him, no matter what. In an election where the popular vote determines the victor, this is nothing less that political suicide.
The approach here is crystal clear: Target his ego and his ego will do your work for you. He knows what his own Achilles Heel, so it's not like he's completely self-unaware. His protection of his ego has manifested itself in two recent statements: His assertion that he'll lose the election from his "belief" that the election is "rigged," and most notably, his efforts to skip participating in televised debates with Hillary Clinton. He doesn't want to face the consequences of allowing his own ego to sabotage his election to the White House.
End the end, he's doomed to failure... Once that anticipated failure happens, that's when his ego will force him to do anything. The most dangerous part of this game. No one expects him to go away quietly, as his ego will never allow him to let things go.
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