Incumbents protect Trump, Trump protects incumbents. Paging Steve Bannon to blow this kumbaya party up.
I donāt think so. Rump will be āvery involvedā to the extent that a Rethug is running in a State that he carried with a large majority. In a purple State, the local GOP will have never heard of someone named Trump nor need any support from them.
He wonāt help challengers, unless, of course, the challenger says nice things about him ( treats him āfairlyā) and the incumbent is insufficiently servile.
Reading his comments is like trying to decipher meaning in tea leaves.
āI hope Donald Trump gets involved not only in GOP primaries, but in the general election.ā
Senator Doug Jones (D-Alabama)
Sounds like he got his hands slapped by Yertle.
āWe have somebody that lost us the state of Alabama, and I think, as far as Iām concerned, that was a shame that that was lost. It should never have been lost.ā
Why is heās talking about āCecilā like that?
After youāve dropped a couple of quaaludes into the tea. Itās just vague stuff, heāll help incumbents and anybody else who has his ākind of thinking,ā whatever that is, and he āthinksā thatās going to happen, whatever that means, and heāll make a lot of ātrips,ā which sounds very concrete and sort of impaired to me. Heās vaguely envisioning getting on the plane, getting off the plane, yammering at the crowd. Making ātrips.ā Itās not how people usually talk about their political strategy for a nationwide campaign. Who are the challengers who āscatteredā? What does that mean? Itās just babbling.
Variations on āI think it will happenā is currently my favorite meaningless Trump-babble neologism, the Sad! of 2018. Itās a powerful insight into his alternative-mechanism universe, whereby daydreaming a result somehow brings it about.
If āhowā was ever a word that had real meaning to him, it surely does not now.
He did that magical thinking from the beginning. He imagined all these really good things happening because he was President, and it would be so easy, so easy. He would replace the ACA with āsomething terrific.ā He had no idea what the steps to make those things happen were, or the costs, any of that. It would just kind ofā¦happen.
Well Trumpās business success, to the extent there was any, consisted of
- form LLC to buy thing
- wait
- IF thing.currentvalue > thing.originalvalue THEN
sell thing
ELSE
bankrupt LLC
ENDIF
Maybe business semi-success in the real estate world over the astoundingly inflationary decades of 1970-2010 is not so hard and doesnāt really tell us much about a fellowās very stable genius-ness? ĀÆ|_ (ć)_/ĀÆ
I have a few hard-won insights into this strange creature that I use as a guide, and one of them is that the only thing he was ever really good at was pretending to be a successful businessman. Thatās why āThe Apprenticeā was his most successful venture. Thatās why heās such a moderately successful grifter, until dissatisfied customers and the law catch up with him. And itās why heās been a comprehensive failure at any actual sort of business.
that wonāt stop Trump.
Trump struck out twice in Alabama, first in the primary and then in the general election.
The lesson from Alabama is that Trumpās base will ignore him if he goes with the safe incumbent as long as the challenger says the right things. In some states, there will be enough Trumpsters voting in the primary to give us more Mooreās (though Iād be amazed if they get anyone that bad again), and give the Democrats a real shot at winning races they shouldnāt have. Trump will campaign for whoever is runningā¦first for the incumbent (if they show enough fealty), and then for whoever wins the primaryā¦and then he will insult whichever candidates lose.
The best part is that a lot of Republicans will be forced to embrace this if they want to win the general, because they will get swept out in the blue wave if they donāt have the right wingers out and voting, but having them will turn off some centrists so they may lose anyways. I fervently hope that Trump campaigns all over the place, itās the best thing he can do for the nation since it will mean fewer Republicans in office.
God I hope not.
I want him all up in the primaries and the general.
Or entrails.
Does this strange creature have conflict after pretending? Or does he lie to himself and believe what heās pretending? We watch him swing between hyper and hypo confidenceā¦ strange, indeed.
ahem
and no, McSally (a McConnell candidate) hasnāt declared yet.