Donald Trump is completely imploding as it all falls apart for him
Donald Trump’s handlers appear to have no clue, or perhaps simply no desire, when it comes to trying to win the 2020 election. He’s such dead weight as a candidate, maybe they just don’t think they can do anything for him – or maybe they’re more interested in carrying out their own personal agendas. Either way, their worst case scenario is that Trump figures out he’s losing, and decides to replace them with new handlers.
That’s part of why we saw Trump’s handlers bring in a disreputable firm today to tell Trump that the polls are all fake and that he’s somehow magically winning. Trump is psychologically and cognitively broken in so many ways, it’s difficult to figure out the extent to which he does or doesn’t understand that he’s losing. But now there’s some evidence that there are at least stretches where he knows he’s losing – and he becomes enraged at his handlers during these stretches.
Trump is going into rages where he’s “malignantly crazy” with anger about how badly he’s losing, according to a lengthy new Vanity Fair profile. Trump is now talking about dumping his campaign manager Brad Parscale, and dumping Jared Kushner from the White House entirely, although the article acknowledges that Trump has threatened to dump Kushner before and he’s never gone through with it. Either way, the upshot is that Trump is in fact losing badly, even according to his own internal numbers, and there are moments when he grasps this.
There is an ongoing debate about which scenario is better for us. Do we want Donald Trump to delusionally think he’s winning, so he’ll stick with his current strategy and coast to a blowout loss? If Trump does figure out that he’s losing, it could drive him totally bonkers and prompt him to help finish himself off – or it could prompt him to dump the stooges around him and bring in professionals to try to right the ship. In any case, Trump is currently in about the worst situation possible.
