Trump Can't Win without Recognizing His Flaws

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/trump_cant_win_without_recognizing_his_flaws.html ^

[DIRTYSECRET]

Now it's time for us to get our head in the game. We need Trump to win, but the next election will not be a cakewalk. The Donald must win bigger than he has ever won before. His victory must be outside the margin of fraud — and the margin of fraud has gotten awfully big since 2020.

The duty to coach Donald Trump falls on us. He is asking to be our employee. We owe him feedback about how to be a great employee. But coaching fails when successes are denied and failures are excused. If we do that, we are encouraging him to ignore his flaws, and we are robbing him of the chance for greatness. If Donald Trump is as great as he claims, he'll take the criticism in the spirit in which it is offered.

[vivenne]

You should call him and tell him that. I’m sure your advice has gotten you to high places so maybe it will help Donald Trump. (extra s)

[Valpal1]

I dislike it when posters fail to include the author’s name as there are some who I will not waste a click on.

Everyone, read the comments at the article. Author gets slammed. More enlightening than the article.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

someone please remind me - what are Trump’s flaws again?

He has never ever been wrong about anything. Also small hands.

[DoodleBob]

I'll repeat myself. This is about ADMINISTRATION. And it's a problem in Trump-land. And he keeps tripping over coffee tables that HE PLACED.

We need to be honest. Trump was a great President, helped make America great again, stopped Hillary, and lots of other magnificent things. His SCOTUS picks helped get Roe overturned, and lots of other great things. When Trump is on, he's on.

But we can get MORE. And we won't if something isn't done about Trump's Achilles - his personnel instincts, which beget an inability to administer policy. They're a virtual dumpster fire. Sessions, the Mooch, Bolton, Tillersn, Mattis, Giuliani, McCabe, Nikki Haley, Sally Yates, Flynn, Hope Hicks, Reince Priebus, Rod Rosenstein. Oh, and Pence...and endorsing McCarthy. And PA and Alabama primary nonsense..and now he hired a Jeb! campaign alumnus.

And this is not an inconsequential Achilles. Indeed, picking Rudy to lead the stolen election charge was a disaster. He may have been America's Mayor but he was out of his league when arguing cases. In fact he was by many accounts hung over and that's why his hair dye was trickling down his face. Maybe that deck was stacked against him, but our "ace" pitcher had no heat and the skipper kept him on the mound out of loyalty.

I love poking they eyes of the MSM. I love memes. But I want lower taxes, a secure border, enemies of America that fear is, and peace and prosperity at home.

Ignoring a problem won't make it go away, and this is a big problem. Re-electing Trump is tough enough, but I don't want to spend four years crossing my fingers on him selecting competent pit bulls to administer MAGA.

[Eva]

No signature verification, motor voter and drop boxes that don’t require a post mark. Oh, and WA has drivers’ licenses with no real ID, motor voter and GOTV. GOTV is State sanctioned ballot harvesting, which keeps the parties informed of votes as they come in. Both parties receive the info, but only Democrats ever considered going out and picking up the ballots and casting them for the voters, like the college students, who graduated and moved on.

The ballot harvesting works like voter registration in cities like Philadelphia or on reservations, once a person is registered to vote, they are registered in perpetuity. Someone just votes for them.

[eeriegeno]

Compared to the rest, Trump is immaculate.

If he would accept constructive criticism though I would offer that he needs to have a trusted panel to personally vet every person who he nominates or appoints. He needs these appointees and nominees to work for him, not against him. His current woes are some of his own doing. I think of Cohen, Session, Wray, Barr, Pence, Mucci, Bolton, and a few more.....

[DIRTYSECRET]

*We still have that 1st term to make an informed decision, and that 1st term should give weight to Trump, over any other contender. His actions far outweigh his perceived or real flaws.* Suburban housewives didn’t care what BJ/Kenyan said or did.
*Trump is the only one scratching the itch that nobody else is.* Good!

[dfwgator]

After watching his videos on YT, Trump needs to take notes from Canada’s Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.

He’s got the blueprint. Of course it’s nice that he can confront Trudeau Face-to-Face in Parliament as well. Something I really wish we had here.

[DoodleBob]

First, I don't know Kristinn is doing at American Thinker, but they've become a MUCH better website. Bravo.

Trump is the plumber, and DeSantis is the poet. The empiricist and the theoretician.

They both check boxes. But we can only nominate one man. Let that battle begin.

What NEITHER of them have done, is present a CREDIBLE plan to win Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona.

Maybe we can lose one or two of those states again, but we need to get way past 270. That plan requires burying the ball in the back of the net to overwhelm the fraud (it's gonna happen...defend against it but it'll happen).

If the candidate simply complains about fraud and 2020 and Dominion and covid and the boogieman and whatever, we lose. We cannot whine our way to glory - indeed, what centrist would pull the lever for a guy who sounds like a petulant 13 year old girl?. But a goodly number of well-meaning people seem content to do just that, or puff out their chests and talk of CWII (from Mom's basement et al).

The candidate needs to detail HOW he will build that wellspring of support. You needn't tell me the secret sauce. But DeSantis is a noob and Trump is an awful hiring manager. Sadly, their strengths are their theoretical and empirical capabilities. I need DeSantis to DEMONSTRATE how he'll work in DC (his 9/11 reply was deer in the headlights stuff), and I need for Trump to hire someone competent (hiring the Jeb! campaign alumnus doesn't inspire confidence). This is what the nation's future is hinged on!?!?

Sure, let Trump be Trump and let DeSantis be DeSantis. But, gentlemen...Talk is cheap. The other side is winning. We won the House but we also posta bunch of three and outs. The world is watching. Tick tock.

[dljordan]

Do the Commies worry about their ‘flaws’? No, they just kick ass.

[PGR88]

Trump’s flaw, IMHO, was mainly his total inexperience in Washington, and less importantly, his bravado.

He stupidly believed, like most Americans, that being elected President by 75 million American voters meant something, and that the bureaucracy would mostly bend to his will. He was absolutely wrong about that.

I don’t blame him for the likes of Sessions, Haley, Bolton, etc... He had no choice

Trump didn’t know, or have control over the vast machine of the permanent Fed.gov bureaucracy. I challenge you to appoint 1000 people to jobs, in in two months, after an election.

What do you do? Who can you trust? You rely on your Party recommendations, people who seem to share your thinking, people who seem to have experience in the permanent bureaucracies they are running.

Oh, and before you get too excited - remember that for the top jobs, Mitch McConnell, and the cronies of the SSCI, need to approve of them as well.

Remember Comey bragging publicly about how he entrapped Gen. Flynn? Did Trump imagine that the FBI and Intel agencies, working with Obama since 2016, could have literally laid out a coup?

THIS is what he was up against. Trump at least revealed to Americans the fake facade of “democracy” in America, and the real permanent bureaucracy and deep-state that runs the country.

He learned quickly on the job, but not quickly enough. But he’s had 7 years now to build his network, sharpen his knives, and hone his revenge

A second Trump term would be FAR more effective

[dfwgator]

A second Trump term would be FAR more effective

I would have believed that before the midterms.

[cymbeline]

“Trump can’t win ...”

I’d say he can stomp any opposition by minimizing the behaviors we complain about all the time on this board.

[Prolixus]

The way to win is to focus on the flaws of President Trump’s opposition.

His opposition has far more flaws than he has by far.

In truth, practically everyone has far more flaws than President Trump.

[Jim W N]

Unless they kill him, TRUMP WILL RUN AND WIN IN 2024.

I don't think anybody's going to let these criminal cheat their way out of the 2024 election.

[DoodleBob]

I hate to say this, but this Manhattan case will give us an insight into how much Trump has learned.

Fair points about the swamp and hiring etc. But Trump's win/loss ratio was awful even when handicapping for all that. Rudy is a great case in point. Nobody forced THAT personnel move on him.

If Trump hired the best and brightest and hungriest legal team, he'll win. However, if his old habits come back and we see missed legal opportunities and awful defense counsel, then even if he gets off there will REMAIN a serious fear about adjudicating MAGA.

Deplorables will vote for him REGARDLESS. It's the 20MM centrists who may be swayed with terrible HR moves, and he he needs them to bury the DNC.

[DoodleBob]

Hope is not a business plan.

[lodi90]

A second Trump term would be absolutely no different than his first. Except he might be convicted this time around. Things like amnesty would be on the table without a doubt. Trump is a deal maker and a lame duck POTUS is the right time to ram that through. Given what garbage he signed in his first term I would expect the worst.

[Boogieman]

“This stolen election stuff is in ‘move on’ territory with the public.”

Which is irrelevant, since the elections are being stolen. The public’s interest is now at best a secondary concern when it comes to elections, until something is done about the fraud.

[Boogieman]

Yep, people are desperate for leaders who will fight for us, not for politicians who are trying to win a popularity contest.