> He won the nomination in 2016 by destroying all the rival candidates (none of whom would have been able to win the general election)—a lot of it by name-calling. <
Right. Such behavior is expected during a primary season. But it’s very, very off-putting otherwise.
Trump’s base might be energized by all this. But those folks are already firmly in the Trump camp. It’s those squishy folks in the middle who are dismayed by Trump’s recent comments. I know a lot of those folks. You probably do, too.
Trump is losing them, those folks in the middle.
When the country is collapsing, people don’t care about tweets. If they do, they are lost and won’t save the country.