All good points, but you make the erroneous assumption Donnie is still “hinged”.
That door flew off the Drumpf Tower loony bin at the start of the GOP primary.
As soon as you tell a secret to a second person it’s no longer a secret.
For all that’s written about poll fraud, steering a national election to an undeserved winner takes a conspiracy. One person doesn’t do it. The very magnitude of such an undertaking nearly assures eventual discovery, even one perpetrated by a foreign power. I’m fairly sure fraudulent intervention successfully swinging election results will not occur.
Maybe but I hope not. The AP and CNN have been taking a lot of flak for normalizing Trump but then I consider the catastrophe of a Trump Presidency would be a boon to TV ratings as reporters spanned the globe covering one disaster after another.
A public meltdown on the stage would be nice.
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Media executives salivate at the prospect of a Trump Presidency. If it bleeds it leads.
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It’s the hacking of the voting systems that concerns me more, as that could have a larger effect on down ticket races where elections are decided by much smaller vote margins. And that’s truly where the power lies as we all know.
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Gonna put in my vote now for Joy Ann Reid to moderate a debate. She’s so far been the one person on TV who isn’t standing for flat out lies and is calling everything out, sides be damned (although most of the lying is coming from Trump surrogates).
I would move Gwen Ifill up to the presidential debates, and have Joy do the VP debate even.
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Author of Art of The Deal Schwartz said trump would be vulnerable if Mrs. Clinton proved to be calm, deliberate and relentless in attacking his character, volatility and readiness to be commander in chief.
“Trump has severe attention problems and simply cannot take in complex information — he will be unable to practice for these debates,” said Mr. Schwartz. “Trump will bring nothing but his bluster to the debates. He’ll use sixth-grade language, he will repeat himself many times, he won’t complete sentences, and he won’t say anything of substance.”
She should also consult with The Making of Donald Trump by David C Johnson, if not already done.
I just keep reminding myself of how she handled herself in front of that committee hearing for eleven hours. Much respect for having to deal with that much ignorance and stupidity in one place, at one time, for that long. Three ninety minute episodes should be a piece of cake. She also held her own against Obama.
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I would like to see Lewis Black in the role.
I think yours is the most likely explanation. Meets the test of Occam’s razor: The hypothesis with the most precedent for such tactics.
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That struck me too. It’s really impossible to tell whether e.g. what Hillary is thinking about the debates is the writer’s speculation or the word of some source. There are some specifics that are attributed to two anonymous advisors and a reference to a background interview with the ghostwriter, but that seems to be completely separate from the first part of the article, which is both about strategy and facts about her prep. It reminds me of entertainment writing. Maybe it’s New Journalism?
The Trump campaign material seems to be standardly sourced. Weird.
(It looks like two articles by the two writers were mashed together, btw. Still, odd.)
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I’m looking forward to her simply turning to him and asking, “Are you three?”
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“Republican math”?
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Not all elections are national ones.
For that matter, national elections aren’t national ones either.
Signed,
A voter who lives in Texas
Seriously, I hope they’re using Alec Baldwin: smart, serious about politics, great actor, and quite familiar with what it’s like to be a loose cannon. Even physically big in the right way. Perfect.
For Hillary this is easy.
Focus on the questions, explain dispassionately her positions and policies, and simply have a conversation with the viewers. We know what he’s going to do, and the less she responds in kind, the madder he’ll get. She should just more or less ignore him, and never respond by dealing with “him”…deal instead with his position (assuming he has one) and confront those, not him. He’ll go completely off the rails…and she shouldn’t respond to that.