Get ready, Donald Trump. You’re about to run into a buzz saw.

WaPo ^ | 11 Mar 2016 | Greg Sargent

[mandaladon]

THE MORNING PLUM:

At last night’s debate, Donald Trump lorded it over his rivals with supreme confidence. Gone was narcissistic, rambling, insult-spraying Trump. In his place stood calm, unifying, presidential Trump. The Donald noted with satisfaction that his foes were mostly laying off of him. “I can’t believe how civil it’s been up here,” he said, by which he really meant, “all you losers have surrendered to me, and I’m loving every minute of it.” And Trump may be right: it’s possible that by next week, he will be on a path to winning the nomination outright.

But if there is anything last night’s debate really revealed, it’s that Trump may not have any idea what is about to hit him soon enough. If Trump does become the nominee, he will run into a buzz saw of reality otherwise known as the general election, and he may not know how badly mangled he’ll get.

Last night’s debate is being widely described as a shift in tone: rather than lob schoolyard insults at each other, the GOP candidates had a real policy debate. And that’s true. But in the process, the debate really revealed the limitations to the scrutiny Trump has faced on policy in the context of the GOP primaries — and that foreshadows, by contrast, just how brutal the scrutiny of Trump on policy will be in the general election, once those limitations are removed.

Consider a few of the main attacks that Trump had to endure last night. When Trump vaguely promised to keep entitlements solvent and to cut “waste, fraud and abuse,” Marco Rubio made a spirited case against Trump’s budgetary hocus pocus, repeatedly saying the numbers “don’t add up.”

[Popman]

At some point Trump will actually have to be able to articulate his policies...

I wonder if he even understands them himself...

Trump has a very limited vocabulary: great, greatest, loser, liar, nasty, maniac...

[Seaplaner]

For starters, Mister trump does not even enjoy a head-to-head plurality over Mrs. Clinton.

If trump (ugh) gets the GOP nom, he will immediately be subjected to a scorched earth assassination on his (alleged) character and an expose on his numerous mis-deeds (think Corleones and eminent domain abuse here. The "b" word, "billionaire" will be repeated a billion times. That he chooses to not release his taxes will be used against him (rightly so, one suspects).

Much of the non-stop criticism against (ugh) trump will be legitimate, one suspects. He will have little honest defense for any of this, one most highly suspects.

A GOP candidate trump will be reduced to (figurative) toast in no time.

What gets me is that Mister trump knows that this is going to happen, and what the result will be.

Mister trump will receive no more electoral college votes than did Mister Perot (zero).

trump = Perot = trump = Perot.

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[odawg]

“I’m not in here with you. You’re in here with me!”
Rorchach

That is funny.

[SaxxonWoods]

I’m so scared.

[WashingtonSource]

“About to run in to a buzz saw”? He’s been running into a buzz saw since Day One.

[skeeter]

First he'll have to convince the electorate there are 'two Donald Trumps' the loud obnoxious braggart; and the other, thoughtful, charitable, lovable one, hidden from the public eye that we are just now beginning to hear about (simultaneously) from numerous sources.

Having insulted, slashed & burned his way to number one I'm afraid he'll find stuffing the campaign genie back into the bottle harder than it was letting it out. But stuff it back in he'll have to do because there's no way he'll win a majority as the public Trump.

[CharlotteVRWC]

Trump had to know that was going To happen.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I never heard of this homosexual.

[Enterprise]

Ya shoulda gave that warning to Jeb Bush Sargent. DUH!

[Texas Fossil]

This is the Washington (Com)Post.

And : The Plum Line is

Greg Sargent’s take from a liberal perspective.

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Wait until we get closer to the train wreck in November. The ComDem Lib Leftist heads will really explode.

[COBOL2Java]

The Washington Post is assuming that Trump will do what Republican presidential candidates normally — willing walk into it.

This is their image of Republican Presidential candidates:

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"Islam is a religion of peace"

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Crowley Interrupts Romney 28 Times, Obama Just 9

[DoughtyOne]

[Popman]

I can imagine Hillary has loads of video of Trump being loud, obnoxious, braggart, egomaniac...etc...

Ready to go for the general...

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

..ELECTION Year 2016 = ELECTION
Year 1968..

NEVER FORGET

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[skeeter]

AR - where’ve you been?

[SoFloFreeper]

Greg Sargent? Why should we listen to her?

[huckfillary]

Exactly. Part of trump’s appeal is his not being a typical policy wonk/politician.

[orinoco]

Tumps supporters... The American People. Have they awoken?

[ctdonath2]

Buzz saw? Trump will just throw a length of rebar at it and watch it explode under its own force. He’s familiar with building materials.

[DaveA37]

“It’s an interesting if not novel thesis that Trump’s candidacy is doomed because he’s a hypocritical, opportunistic liar. When everyone outside the Washington beltway thinks that everyone working inside the Washington beltway is a hypocritical, opportunistic liar.”......

If that were the case, why then are all those who are attacking Trump so afraid? Seems there are one hell of a lot of folks out there who fear what Trump can and more importantly WILL DO to upset their happy crooked home.