Advisers who once hoped a Pygmalion-like transformation would refashion a crudely effective political showman into a plausible American president now increasingly concede that Mr. Trump may be beyond coaching.Naturally, Trump being Trump, what bothers him most is the suggestions that he pays any attention to advisers at all:
In the article, colleagues who spoke on the condition of anonymity called Trump "exhausted, frustrated and still bewildered by fine points of the political process."Trump is not accepting reality -- but I can see why he thinks he should be winning.
"The failing @nytimes, which never spoke to me, keeps saying that I am saying to advisers that I will change. False, I am who I am-never said" Trump wrote on twitter.
The Times story says:
[Trump] veers from barking at members of his staff to grumbling about how he was better off following his own instincts during the primaries and suggesting he should not have heeded their calls for change.The multi-ethnic general electorate is very different from the rage-addicted lily-white Republican primary electorate -- but Trump probably believes what he's repeatedly heard: that there's no real difference between the two electorates.
... he is in a dire predicament, Republicans say, because he is profoundly uncomfortable in the role of a typical general election candidate, disoriented by the crosscurrents he must now navigate and still relying impulsively on a pugilistic formula that guided him to the nomination.
The mainstream media tells us over and over again that both parties are exactly the same with regard to anger (and everything else, for that matter). The MSM says that the Bernie Sanders phenomenon was exactly analogous to the Trump phenomenon, even though Sanders didn't win, and even though the vast majority of Sanders backers are now supporting Hillary Clinton. There are angry Sanders supporters who, like Trump diehards, want the world to burn, but for all their visibility, they're a distinct minority. Trump assumes he should get the votes of all Sanders supporters -- hey, the MSM says both insurgent movements are alike, therefore they must be equally rage-fueled.
And the conservative media's message is that everyone either is or is potentially a conservative Republican. The only reason anyone isn't a conservative Republican is brainwashing (by the "liberal media," by academia, by the "Democrat Party"). This is true, according to the right, across all races. Blacks would be conservative Republicans if they weren't trapped on the "liberal plantation"; all blacks who "think for themselves" instantly migrate to the right. Same thing for Hispanics: They're "culturally conservative" and have "traditional values." So of course Trump has boasted that he'll win the black and Hispanic vote.
The overriding message of the conservative movement for years is that the Democrat currently in the White House was elected by people who aren't really Americans -- they may be citizens and they may vote legally (though that's doubtful!), but it's not their country. We have to take our country back from them. So of course Trump thinks that he should be winning the election -- isn't he winning with "real Americans"?
Trump's confusion is understandable -- and I hope he remains confused and continues his primary-campaign style all the way to November.
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The MSM says that the Bernie Sanders phenomenon was exactly analogous to the Trump phenomenon...
To be fair, a lot of Sanders supporters have been saying the Trump phenomenon is somewhat analogous to the Sanders phenomenon--i.e., driven by economic inequality/stagnation (rather than white nationalism). The data don't support this view, but you still find people believing it, convinced that Sanders could have won a sizable portion of Trump voters.
Willful ignorance is not BLISSful...just plain stupid!
And the STUPID is very very strong in this one!
The farce is with him!
tRUMP represents the worst of America.''
In other words, about 40 +/- %.
OY!
What is the "rage addiction" to which you refer?
A group of people who are angry enough at the burgeoning crop of Milwaukees
that they would take decisive measures to restore peace and tranquility in the United States? As opposed to the non-rage addicted candidates voters who will appease appease appease amongst the flames of burning auto parts stores?
And these Trump/Sanders voters who "want the world to burn?"
You mean the folks who won't forgive Clinton for helping burn Iraq and Libya and Syria down? And wanting to do the same to reduce Putin to Yeltsin status?
Oh.
KR, are you at all familiar with Operation Iraqi Lberation? Do the names Dubya and Cheney mean anything to you? Cause most sane people know the Iraq arsonists were Dubya and Cheney
Thank you Tom. I've defended your candidate with alarming frequency around here, I appreciate the return.
Blackstone
You mean the Dubya and Cheney whom Obama refused to prosecute, already having his own crimes under consideration? The Dubya and Cheney who then used their ill-earned freedom to criticize Obama for "losing" Iraq? A criticism Obama greatly preferred to risking 'tearing the country apart' by punishing
crime. Who then allowed Clinton to pressure him to tear Libya and Syria apart, after having helped Dubya and Cheney (Wolfowitx-Perle and Feith) tear Iraq apart for the oiligarchy, Haliburton and Tel Aviv?
Can't tell the distinction without much difference apart.
It's much simpler than this: Trump thinks that if crowds keep coming out to see him he must be popular and hence about to win. He thinks it's basically TV ratings.
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