[Why Letting Trump Be Trump Is Killing His General Election Prospects]
That’s the title of this article…a couple of things
The GOP cannot “let” Trump do anything. They have no control over Trump. Never did.
Democrats should make it implicit about GOP politicians holding or running for ANY office that “No Denounce of Trump”=“Agree with everything Trump has said, says and will say”
What happens next will be fascinating. Trump still owns 40% of the GOP who love his BS. He has the votes to win on the first ballot.
But perhaps more importantly, he is violating the number one rule of presidential campaigns. People want someone who is positive, and he is the exact opposite. Wednesday, he started predicting that this country will not survive. Ronald Reagan’s city on the hill is a foreign concept to him. This country survived a war where half the states took up arms against the other half, and killed a half million. We survived 9-11, Oklahoma City and Sandy Hook. We will survive Trump. The best way is to kick him to the curb now.
This is the man who said “You win the pennant and now you’re in the World Series — you gonna change?” Ask any National League pitcher at Fenway if that’s true.
That reminds me of a seminar I attended a few years ago at Stanford which was a presentation of research sponsored by the Dalai Lama on the neuroscience of altruism. Report after report showed that in any given situation a fifth to a fourth of people were just assholes. Pretty much consistent with my life observations, a thought I shared with the somewhat woo-woo student sitting next to me, causing her to burst out laughing.
Yes - remember when the GOP used that variant of “Why do Democrats hate America?” evert time someone criticized the Iraq War?
Or as GOPer Jeff Flake put it the other day Trump got 13 million votes in the primaries and caucuses, but he needs about 65 million to win the general.
Trump seems more focused on the voices in his head and lunatic hallucinations that “tell” him “You must keep your 13 million. The force of your magnificent personality will get you the 65 mil.”… Adds up to a coming GOP debacle and the Promised Land for Dems from top to bottom of the ticket.
I can respect the “I’m not a politician” position of refusing to “pivot” towards the general. If this were a matter of principle, rather than just being a display of Trump himself this would be an even better argument against the underlying Republican appeal. As it is the Rs can, later, “claim” Trump was an anomaly. He’s not, and voters in future elections need to be reminded what the Rs really represent.
Speaking of anomalies, the presumptive candidate for the Rs is a mad “businessman” and the strong 2nd for the Ds isn’t a registered D — That should also be a wake up call to “establishment” Ds!!
“My sense is that Trump has a particular style. It’s been successful for him. … The very idea of changing it up when it’s been so successful for him, because he doesn’t have experience in office, I think that it doesn’t resonate with him,” Selzer said.
I think this misses the point. It’s not his lack of experience in office that prevents him from switching gears. He has, apparently since early childhood, demonstrated a pathological hostility toward the rest of the world. His need to be the center of attention and to dominate everyone around him, and his uncontrollable rage at anyone who disagrees with him is simply and incurably sick.
Hate to quibble over word choices (well, not really 
but Drumpf hasn’t “handled” squat with regard to the Orlando attacks - or anything for that matter.
To me, “handling” at least implies that you have had a part to play in the official response.
Standing on the sidelines, cheering on the chaos, and pointless bloviating doesn’t “handle” anything. He’s not part of the solution, he’s part of the problem.
Some men just want to see the world burn…
Yes, please.
Pretty please with sugar on top.
That’s about the only thing that will make the last year in Presidential politics seem worthwhile!
Nation to Trump: YOU’RE FIRED!! (not that we ever hired you).
Neither of them acted crazy like this.
He is a dangerous man…and after he is rejected by the American people, he, his associates and anyone with whom he has been in contact should be looked at with a great deal of care and concern. The same thing which makes upper middle class frat-boy assholes some of the worst examples of assholery are magnified exponentially in Trump.
I cannot imagine that kind of personality after 60+ years of malignant “nurturing” and sycophancy.
Keep focusing on this wishful thinking poll because this is the closest anyone is going to come to defeating Trump. One of the greatest American newsmen, Dan Rather said for Democrats to be afraid…Trump could win. I’d love to see Trump win if it means the collapse of the Republican Party and the moderation of the Democratic Party. The Republicans created this scenario with the help of spineless Democrats and all because of the stupid culture wars.
That’s EXACTLY what I’ve been saying for the past few weeks! I think Trump is going to implode - sooner, rather than later.
Yes. They said opposition to the Iraq war was unpatriotic, even treasonous if not at the very least unsupportive of the President and our troops.
I was surprised by that too.
Probably just that rigged system that locked him out of participating.
It’s so full of B.S. since Trump has never been a social conservative and I can’t imagine ever will be. Instead of being this own man" and standing up for what he believes, he caves to the teathuggigans on important issues such as Choice, LGBTQ Equal protection and maintaining racism in the GOP.
When you are so far into yourself that you think only you are the source of the best words and advice, you are incapable of removing your head from your ass for a much needed reality check.
The reality is Trump is the GOP, and this GOP is about 25% of the general electorate… if that even.
Lord, I hope not. Today’s Democratic Party is to the right of Dwight Eisenhower. The last thing it needs is “moderation.”