This explains why November could be in jeopardy.

[Ninga]

While I appreciate so much more can happen to change supporters minds, he is in campaign mode every day he holds his briefing. Media is playing into his hands.

-snips-

He is the new Houdini. His entire life he has been an escape artist.

“He’s a magician that way. Other people would stop and recognize that they were defeated. Or that they should be shamed. He refuses.”
Jennifer Mercieca, a professor at Texas A&M University and the author of the forthcoming Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump

Attention can be good or bad, but a central gambit of the life of Trump is that that’s actually not true. That it’s all good. That attention is power. That if you’re watching, he’s winning.

“Anybody who studies him and studies the nature of power and propaganda when melded together should understand that this is not going to be easy,” veteran Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said of his party’s shot to make Trump a one-term president.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/17/donald-trump-escape-crisis-bankruptcy-coronavirus-casino-trumpology-183513

[Demsrule86]

1. Trump barely won last time...and has less support this time.

[Ninga]

4. I know. Would like your view on the article though. It Cant hurt to read it.

[edhopper]

5. But that support is still too high

and places him in a position to win the Electoral College again.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. This is what keeps me up at night. I don't see how we could survive another 4 years.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. He did NOT win the election in 2016. He won the Electoral College. . . . nt

[JI7]

2. He is a trashy bigot and that's why his supporters support him

[Ninga]

7. The article illustrates how he does it and why his supporters eat it up.

[JI7]

9. he does it by being a bigot just like his supporters

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. His base isn't big enough to re-elect him.

[JI7]

15. that's why they need voter suppression

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. If it failed in Wisconsin ...

If it failed in Wisconsin where folks literally risked their lives to vote I don't see it working elsewhere.

[JI7]

18. that's why it's important for everyone to come out and vote

[edhopper]

3. The danger is

him pulling another Electoral win after losing the general vote. We must beat him with swing voters in swing States.

[Ninga]

6. Article states EXACTLY how he is campaigning every day. While cowards shirk in the wallpaper

propping him up. No one has confronted him, cut him off at the knees, he keeps going because he can.

[BusyBeingBest]

8. In general, I think average/nonpolitical people are tired of his act.

Even his zombiest of supporters have to be a little fatigued by the clown show at this point.

[Arkansas Granny]

19. But will they vote for Biden? Some might.

I think the best we can hope for is that they stay home.

[BusyBeingBest]

21. I don't think there will be a groundswell of support for Trump.

I think his base will vote for him, of course, but Trump-fatigue will have set in for the apolitical low-info crowd. Biden doesn't excite hardly anybody, but also doesn't generate dislike, so I predict he'll win.

[mucifer]

10. yeah, I feel it. When people have no jobs and no money and no food they will turn to the dictator.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. That would be more likely if the dictator was the reason they had no jobs and no money.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Totally crap piece in Politico

He can't lose because he's ten feet tall.

[Ninga]

14. Good grief. The piece illustrates how he has slipped out of trouble his entire life.

The piece does not say he can’t lose. Is that your take away?

Why are you fighting with me?

“The video the president showed at the beginning of Monday’s briefing that many described as propaganda marked an escalation in this effort and a likely preview of what’s to come. “PRESIDENT TRUMP TOOK DECISIVE ACTION,” the screen said.

And on Thursday, on the heels of the latest dismal unemployment numbers, the Trump campaign blasted out an email, with a quote attributable to its communications director, trying to flip the narrative. It echoed Sheinkopf’s mock script. “Under the president’s leadership the economy reached unprecedented heights before it was artificially interrupted and it will be though his guidance that we’ll restore it to greatness …”

Don’t believe this can work?

Don’t believe Trump can win?

“Talk to President Hillary Clinton,” Sheinkopf said.” (Sheinkopf is a Democratic strategists)

[stillcool]

20. that is one long...

article, that says nothing. I guess it's good there are some late to the party, but it's like reading a polite article from 2016, and slapping a new title on it.

[Ninga]

22. Actually explains how his daily

briefings mirrors his strategy going forward.

[stillcool]

28. I think his strategy going forward..

is highly dependent on the GOP. Trump would be gone tonight, if the power behind the GOP found him useless. He's like the opening-act to get the crowd going....but he is not the one behind the curtains making the decisions. I suppose if I wasn't so saturated with Trump-lore I might find it interesting...but, instead I find it irritating.

[SoonerPride]

24. The entire R side of the ballot is gonna be wiped out

And Agolf Twitler is the reason why.

This is one time he can’t bully, tweet, lie, cheat, and bamboozle his way out of it. The virus doesn’t read Twitter. It will rage on and kill hundreds of thousands of Americans by November.

Plus we will be in a depression.

He will lose bigly.

Trust in that.

[TreasonousBastard]

25. I've been watching Trump for years, and this article is right on...

He is a master propagandist and has managed to turn every failure into a success. Of sorts

Even after his football league went down in flames, he had some other owners speaking kindly of him, and nobody getting as pissed as they should have. How he snookered them into thinking he was their friend is anyone's guess.

As his casino "empire" was collapsing, he was yakking about the genius he was to have gotten out of the business at the right time.

He was ignorant enough to think he invented "pump and dump" as he watched stock prices rise when he bought something, but the rest of the street saw what was going on and dumped him. He still yakked about being a genius stock picker, and some still believed him. Until the SEC took interest.

So, as bad as it would look for a normal human at this point, we're not talking about a normal human, and pulling out of these flames could be his "greatest" achievement.

President Barnum.

[HarlanPepper]

26. Most cases. Most deaths.

She’s overthinking it.

[Zambero]

27. The "Invincible" Napoleon eventually met defeat at Waterloo

No one is invincible, although many see themselves that way. The tide has turned and Trump will he meeting his Waterloo come November.

[DFW]

29. I'm not worried about winning the election

I'm worried about winning the counting of the votes:

[qazplm135]

30. This is not 2016

The electorate won't be either

[brush]

31. Ya really think these pressers are making him look good?

News Flash: Economy in a shambles, millions unemployed, miles-long food lines on freeways, 37,000 dead and rising—nah, he's not going to weasel out of this unprecedentedly stunning display of absolute incompetence.

He's going down just as the death rates are going up.

[Ninga]

32. My intent was to post an article that is a history of how he has

slithered out of trouble.

I have no earthly idea if he will win or lose. Historical perspective is nothing to dismiss. I am wiser for reading and now can incorporate into talking points. I dunno, I don’t think reading such an article is a bad thing.


I will pound the pavement and work hard for Biden.

[Crunchy Frog]

33. Complacency is our biggest enemy. Never underestimate his political wilyness.