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In reply to the discussion: OK. I've joined the crew that doesn't think Trump will be the nominee [View all]malthaussen
(17,183 posts)Usually, when a writer in a book or a screenplay writes some variation on "he's crazy, his actions don't have to make sense," I am unconvinced, because crazyness often has its own internal logic that makes perfect sense, when examined. But with Mr Trump, I can find no satisfactory structure onto which I can hang his actions: he appears to me to have mounted a tiger with the only objective of seeing how far he can take it. A con man who has gotten so wrapped up in his con, he's just going with the flow and pushing it with every utterance. Possibly there is method to his madness, but it is impenetrable to me.
But it's not all about Trump. The GOP is in significant disarray, as their expectations have been wholly blown out of the water by what has occurred in the primaries. No one with a speck of credibility to the people who own the party could scratch up the slightest interest with the voters. The Dems, OTOH, despite some minor ripples on the way to the nomination of their preferred candidate, have what they wanted and really only need to paper over the cracks in the wallpaper. A case can be made that the GOP's walls are really crumbling, and will need more than cosmetic surgery to perpetuate the myth of Business as Usual. How they scramble to do this, while maintaining a facade that all is well in the best of all possible worlds, is going to interact in interesting ways with the massive ego and narcissism (and vindictiveness and raw power, let's not forget those) of the presumptive candidate.
-- Mal