2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow The Trump Campaign Is Embracing Dirty Trickster Roger Stone’s Playbook
Donald Trump and his campaign are signaling a shift toward an election strategy laid out by conspiracy theorist, dirty trickster, and informal Trump adviser Roger Stone.
The plan: Plant enough lies in the MSM about Hillary and hope some of them stick.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/09/28/how-trump-campaign-embracing-dirty-trickster-roger-stone-s-playbook/213410
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)I think Trump used the Stone strategy and bungled it up.
Same thing happened to chicken little and the boy who cried wolf.
People start tuning out the bullshit pretty quickly.
JHB
(37,160 posts)When they slough off, the Republicans cast aspersions on the fogbank of steam rising off the pile. They point to the white cloud and say "where there's smoke..."
Once it became clear they were simply out to bag Bill's head, his popularity went up.
And in previous years, their background people did the sewer work, not the guy up front.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Just keep bragging how he's "the only one who can fix America."
tinrobot
(10,900 posts)He lost the last few shreds of it during/after the debate.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)It can also be viewed as an admission of more than just defeat: