Donald Trump’s “campaign” won’t survive this
The term “Survival of the fittest,” made famous in the fifth edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” suggests that organisms best adjusted to their environment are the ones who will thrive, survive and reproduce. In politics, politicians, too, have their own “survival of the fittest.”
In politics, one can be rich. They can be courted by greedy lobbyists. They can be successful and have all the advantages. However, that does not guarantee their survival in Presidential races.
To survive in Presidential politics, one must quickly adapt to their environment. They must have charisma. They must like to meet people and spend time on the road, sometimes in cheap hotel rooms, where there are days that all they do is circulate, meeting ever more people and laying out their version of the American dream.
And that is the exact reason so many contenders fail. They can’t adapt. They have literally no idea what to do and how to behave. And so many Presidential candidates (looking at you, Scott Walker, Rick Santorum, Jeb Bush) fail. Their campaigns disintegrate into nothing at all.
Donald Trump’s campaign will not survive either. Donald Trump did indeed tap into something all those years ago when he came down that escalator. He tapped into the worst of mankind — and out came the racists, the angry, the unmoored. It’s like they had waited quietly in the background, waiting for someone vile to come out and speak the words they felt in their hearts.
So yes, for one brief moment, Donald was President. It won’t work for him again. That is because Trump isn’t running for anything. He isn’t even running a campaign. How often do we see Trump doing rallies? Not very often, and when he does, they’re a shadow of what they once were.
When do we see him CARE about anything? To be the fittest, one has to put some effort in! They certainly have to CARE about themselves and their voters, and their platform. I see the no platform where Donald Trump is concerned. I see no caring. All he does these days is rant on Truth Social. All he does is come up with vicious names to call his so-called enemies, who are basically almost everybody.
That is the winning formula for losing. Trump can’t ever be bothered to show up in Iowa for an event almost every Presidential contender is going to. He can’t be bothered to be polite to Governors he may need, as his recent diatribes again Iowa’s Governor. He can’t be bothered to debate, or so he says.
Donald Trump has given up. That’s what I see. When one wants something — be it a new job, a romantic relationship, a Presidential election, a new way of life — one fights for it with everything they’ve got. And they see whatever they’re fighting for as imperative to their survival.
Trump is fighting for nothing. Perhaps the cobwebs have invaded his brain. He seems tired and irritated, and bored. And those are most definitely NOT attributes of the fittest. They ARE attributes of losers.
