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pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 09:46 AM Aug 2016

Campaign shakeup, new policy. Forget Mr. Nice Guy. Let Trump be Trump: MEAN.

So, according to the WA Post, he'll be pivoting away from any attempt at normalcy.

There's too much in this article to do it justice with an excerpt. I suggest you read the whole thing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/08/17/daily-202-what-trump-s-latest-shakeup-says-about-his-flailing-campaign/57b3ba48cd249a2fe363ba23/

Trump plans to re-double his focus on holding big rallies and doing lots of TV hits. He’ll also more aggressively attack Hillary Clinton, to the extent that’s possible, and he’ll re-embrace his role as an outsider, making less of an effort to be nice to GOP greybeards.

During the primaries, when Trump was winning, then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski always said "let Trump be Trump." He now wants to get back to that type of campaign culture. The moves send “a signal, perhaps more clear than ever, that the real-estate mogul intends to finish this race on his own terms, with friends who share his instincts at his side,” Costa writes.

-- This is another proof point that Trump is not trying to run the kind of serious campaign that can actually win the presidency. That’s why it will frighten the GOP establishment, scare off some mainstream donors who have been playing footsie with the billionaire and push congressional leaders like Mitch McConnell a little closer to cutting Trump loose – maybe even before Labor Day. (Bannon’s site single-mindedly went after Paul Ryan in the run-up to his primary.)

-- Both of the newly-elevated advisers are conservative populists who will never discourage Trump from following his id. It’s hard for a 70-year-old man to change his ways, especially this one. Donald’s id demands instant gratification more than most people’s, and he’s long struggled to control his impulsiveness.

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Campaign shakeup, new policy. Forget Mr. Nice Guy. Let Trump be Trump: MEAN. (Original Post) pnwmom Aug 2016 OP
It's a shame that Leni Riefenstahl died in 2003. sofa king Aug 2016 #1
Ouch underpants Aug 2016 #2
I know... sofa king Aug 2016 #3
Trump has never been anything but entitled, vindictive and uninformed. Orsino Aug 2016 #4

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
1. It's a shame that Leni Riefenstahl died in 2003.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:03 AM
Aug 2016

She's the shot in the arm that the Trump campaign really needs.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
4. Trump has never been anything but entitled, vindictive and uninformed.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:06 AM
Aug 2016

Just means someone will be scripting more two-syllable insults.

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