Posted on 02/03/2016 9:11:54 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
As far as I can tell, Donald Trump's grieving process works more or less completely in the reverse order from what you would expect from a rational human being. Immediately after the event, Trump was more or less in acceptance mode, saying he was proud of finishing second, he loved the people of Iowa, he was going to come back and buy a farm there.
Then he went into depression, secluding himself for an uncharacteristically long time from twitter and the media.
Working backwards, he skipped over bargaining and went straight to anger, blaming the media and their unfair treatment of him.
Then this morning, he went into denial mode, basically saying that the Iowa loss never even happened and there should be a do over.
But if you look deeper into Trump's twitter rant this morning, and you have some understanding of both his neuroses and the cynical way he plays his followers, you can see that Trump has already decided how he will react to a loss in the GOP primaries, if he suffers one: he will refuse to accept the results and run third party.
Look at what Trump is doing here. He is complaining about a series of events that are, by any objective measure, ordinary politics, and he is treating them as evidence of "fraud" or that the results of Iowa were somehow completely illegitimate.
As Trump always does, he is clearly pre-complaining about anything even potentially damaging to him as the result of "unfair" treatment or a fixed, "unfair" process. If he should lose New Hampshire, he will do it again, even though the RNC booted National Review from the upcoming debate in order to mollify him (and yet allowed an openly anti-Cruz moderator onto the stage).
Trump is prepping his followers to bolt with him for a third party run if he loses the nomination. In fact, if he loses New Hampshire and South Carolina, he may just do it pre-emptively. I suspect this is a decision he has already made. Now, I know that he will probably not be able to get on the ballot at this late date in many states, but the point will not be to win, it will be to damage the Republican nominee, which has been Trump's goal from the beginning of this process.
Personally, I think a three way race between Cruz/Rubio, Trump, and Hillary will end up pretty well for the GOP. There's a lot of evidence that a majority of Trump's support comes from disaffected Democrats, and there are plenty of Democrats who are less than enthused about voting for Hillary.
I just wish that if Trump were not man enough to accept the will of the electorate, that he would go ahead and declare that he's running third party and save us all a lot of trouble.
So the media are covering up Trump’s racist and white supremacist tweets?
The infamy never stops!
But please share with us the names of some these supremacists favored by Trump. Inquiring minds wanna know.
Good post - I agree. I appreciated and respected his mature and gracious remarks on Monday night. WHY did he toss that away?
Consider the source of this. Red State is very anti-Trump.
That's not a great quality for a leader to have, and it's actually pretty disappointing considering how great he was on Monday.
Leon Wolf needs to get off Meth.
In other news Donald Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. :-)
If Trump’s goal all along was to get a Democrat elected by throwing the Republican primaries into chaos, he probably will go Third Party if he’s not the Republican nominee.
I've been saying that all along. When the COMMIES veered the JACKASS party leftward, the reasonable DUmocrats bolted and aligned with Trump who would be better running as one of them instead of trying to hide behind a "conservative" facade.
http://nymag.com/following/2016/01/donald-trump-mostly-retweets-white-supremacists.html
Really, you don’t have to support Trump anymore. I understand why you wnet for him. I really do. But you need to move on.
Look, the solution isn't to destroy the GOP -- it is to try to elect candidates that will follow the path we want. At the least, the GOP fights a rear guard action that at least slows the march to socialism, and buys us more time to win elections and maybe, eventually, get the right guy in there.
Destroying the GOP is basically giving up, because then there will be zero impediment to the Dems hurtling much faster towards socialism.
If it’s a day ending in “y”, Red State must be taking a cheap shot at Trump again.
There is exactly one tweet provided in the article that you just cited, and here it is:
“@WhiteGenocideTM: @realDonaldTrump Poor Jeb. I could’ve sworn I saw him outside Trump Tower the other day!”
So.... where is the racism and bigotry and stuff in the tweet? It looks to me like it is mocking Jeb Bush.
Unless that’s what you and New York Mag are calling White Supremacy these days I’m missing it. Please advise.
Uh, fourteen hours. This writer needs a reality check over what constitutes depression.
Nursing a cold = depression.
So why do you want Hillorat to be POTUS, cause that will happen if Trump splits the party.
grow up, beat the Dems!
In reference to FR Cruz supporters? That would be good. A little humbleness might help them convince others to support Cruz. The present tactics sure as hell aren't working.
and should Trump win the will of the electorate and get the GOP nomination, will you support that Mr. Wolf?
Sadly, he does retweet them. I’ve looked at a lot of these accounts (typically tagged “White Genocide,” “AltRight,” and so on. Then I block them.
I honestly don’t think he looks at these accounts before he retweets them... he just likes what they write in support of him.
If the Lump is the nominee, the Democrats will take Congress with a huge majority. The foul-mouth, vulgar tard will turn away half the party’s own voters who couldn’t hold their nose tight enough to block the stench.
Let's be wary of Pyrrhic victories.
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