Donald Trump Seems Destined to Self Destruct
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Via: jbb • one week ago • 45 commentsBy: Jacob Heilbrunn (The National Interest)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Instead of whining about how badly he's being treated, Trump would do well to recognize that he has only himself to blame for his current predicament.
by Jacob Heilbrunn
Donald Trump was angry. "With all I have done for Israel, I received only 24 percent of the Jewish vote," he said on Thursday. "I really haven't been treated very well, but it's the story of my life." Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Washington, DC on Thursday that was supposed to denounce anti-Semitism in America. Instead, Trump had the chutzpah to denounce American Jews should he lose the election—"the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss."
Would they? With American Jews representing slightly over 2 percent of the American population, it's a sweeping claim on Trump's part. No doubt, small margins of voters in various swing states, including Pennsylvania, can tip the election one way or the other. But it's Trump's own actions that will determine his political fate—and right now, it isn't looking too good.
The latest batch of polls indicates that Harris has a slight lead over Trump in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Trump continues to hold a big edge over Harris on guiding the economy, but their positions on abortion positions on abortion are flipped. All signs continue to point to a tight race. But it is Harris who has rapidly climbed in the polls to take the, well, pole position.
Trump's prospects are clouded by the fresh developments in the North Carolina Governor's race, where Republican Mark Robinson is running against Attorney General Josh Stein. CNN released a plethora of salacious material about Robinson as well as his apparent boast that he is a "black NAZI!!" Robinson has rebuffed entreaties to exit the race. On Thursday, he declared, "We are staying in this race. We are in it to win it." The deadline has now passed for him to step down.
With his habitual bravado, Trump ignored earlier warnings about Robinson and embraced him as "one of the hottest politicians in the United States." Now, the Harris campaign is running ads highlighting the cozy relationship between the former president and Robinson. Trump will hold a rally on Saturday in North Carolina, but it's unclear if he will invite Robinson to attend.
The question looming over the Trump campaign is, of course, whether or not the brouhaha over Robinson will damage its prospects to win the state in November. One thing that it has done is to push the story of Springfield, Ohio, where Trump claimed that Haitian immigrants were devouring cats and dogs out of the headlines. Trump had hoped to capitalize on it. But the Robinson scandal is now dominating the airwaves. And it could hurt his presidential prospects.
As Aaron Blake notes, "North Carolina was decided by just more than a point in 2020, and it's been polling very closely in 2024. Not only that, but it appears to be one of three states Trump is emphasizing as his most likely path to victory, with the others being Georgia and Pennsylvania." Trump has a history of boosting tarnished candidates such as Herschel Walker, whose loss in Georgia helped cost the GOP control over the Senate.
This time, Trump may have wounded himself as well. As Trump reckons with how to deal with a self-proclaimed "black Nazi" whom he promoted, he is further tarnishing his campaign for the presidency. The appearance of a white nationalist and Nazi sympathizer at several fundraising events at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, is also attracting attention. How any of this is supposed to attract the votes of Jewish voters is an interesting question. Instead of whining about how badly he's being treated, Trump would do well to recognize that he has only himself to blame for his current predicament.
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He's so hateful and angry - he needs a ton of snickers.
With Trump it is always someone else's fault. His narcissistic, childish personality will not allow otherwise.
That's true of almost all our political leadership. It's always blame the other guy for anything that goes wrong. We don't have leadership in Washington that takes responsibility anymore. Hell, how many times has the Biden/Harris administration blame Trump for things that have gone badly for them?
Nope.
It's the non-stop endless tiresome defense of the indefensible.
Right, you found some instances where they did or didn't take responsibility. Good for you. Does that cover 100% of their actions? Not by a long shot. Didn't the current administration blame the prior administration for inflation & Afghanistan? Read with honest eyes for a change, they all will blame the other guy or the prior administration when they think they can get away with it. They continue to treat the voting public like idiots and believe that to be true. But unbridled partisanship will only cover one for so long.
I dunno. So I'm asking you-- how many?
And it will be the fault of the American women who believe that a man would be a better PotUS than a woman, have no self-respect and/or prefer to be 'handmaidens' allowing others to control their bodies if Kamala Harris loses.
We should be so lucky to have him implode before our eyes.
I would pay to see that.
Pretty sure he has already done so multiple times. His MAGA base couldn't give a shit though.
It is hard to imagine how Trump could get much worse (short of just losing his temper in a major way). He has recently resorted to saying that Harris is mentally deficient and has been so since birth.
What is next, calling her a whore like some of his supporters do?
I've got a jelly donut that says he does
...on Fox News.
that would be perfect
Every day it gets worse and every day he loses some support though when it comes to slurs against Democrats/Harris/Walz he's running out of material, so I guess that's the next shit to throw against the wall. The assholes who believe it will just cheer. Maybe the ones who had a problem with slurs against Melania for being a gold digger and the like will be the last straw for those who have some remaining decency.
He has already said that she "puts out" to get her positions/jobs. That's pretty damn close to calling her a whore.
Even if one were to disregard all of Trump's wrongdoing and just evaluate him as someone who has not violated the CotUS and the law the electorate would never stand for such an asshole running for the presidency.
What is it about Trump that causes this cultish admiration from the GOP and to support this guy no matter what he does or says?
He has drawn out all the people who have victim mentality and all the racists that have been hiding under rocks for decades. They see a kindred soul in him and will go to any measure to support him.
He gives them all legitimacy.
I never heard him utter that ignorance though I generally can't stomach listening to/watching more than a few minutes of him spewing his endless verbal venom
There are that many in the electorate with those conditions???
Of course not, but it seems to make some feel better thinking there are...
Same as those on the other side who think all liberals are Marxist-Socialist-Commies?
Just those who watch Fox habitually.
Trump utilizes the false "Us v. Them" dichotomy effectively.
When he speaks he is vague enough that any person who is disaffected finds a niche in the language. It is all balderdash, but these are people we're talking about, not computers.
Really, any politician uses this false dichotomy to some extent. Trump cannot dazzle them with his brilliance, but he can baffle them with his bullshit.
And always remember that half of the people are average or below...
It kills me that the average reading comprehension level in the US has fallen from a 9th grade level to that somewhere between 7th and 8th grade. The ability to problem solve seems worse.
Yes, do you think partisanship is only a one party thing?
Unfortunately it appears so.
When I was in the sixth grade, I could conjugate properly...
Trump doesn’t have a chance. Kamala is the real stable genius. Listening to her honesty and perfectly assembled speech is like a breath of fresh air.
Aaahhhh!
So you prefer his 90 minutes of verbal diarrhea whenever he has a camera and microphone in front of his fat face[✘]
[✘]
Ahhhh yes..............
These types of seeds are funny. As bad as Trump is, and yet Trump & Harris are basically tied in the battleground states that will decide the winner in November. If Trump is this bad and still basically tied, just how bad is Harris then?
says more about his supporters than harris
What frigging nonsense.
Exactly.
Just the usual defense of the indefensible. Yawn.
Actually, supporting a candidate for President that has yet to receive one single vote speaks volumes about those supporters.
Who now is a threat to Democracy?
Senseless stupid tiresome 'argument'
The threat continues to be the former 'president' convicted felon rapist conman traitor.
Trump has been running his campaign for 4 year while Harris has been running for 2 months? The election has gone from Biden -6 to Harris +2.7 (today's number). I'm not going to go all rah, rah here for Harris. It's, as you say, to close to call, but if she does win it will be a actual historic moment.
Yes it will be. The first woman president and the first Indian president. But I think the woman president would be the bigger moment as our population is slowly getting more homogenized. When she first took the mantle I wondered how her being a woman would go against her votes as there is still a part of the population that would not vote for a female. As to who wins in November, I don't know. But as one of the two of them will get the Oval Office, I'm sure that we the people will lose regardless of who gets in.
If Harris is elected, those same people will announce that misogyny and sexism is dead while continuing to also say she only got there by trading on sexual favors - or liberals only voted for her because she was the DEI choice.