Some days, you can almost convince yourself he’s trying to lose this election. It feels like he’s sabotaging himself with the tweets, the crazy talk, the scandals generated by his own slips of the tongue and thumbs.
Shake it the fuck off.
Of course he’s trying to sabotage himself. His entire life is a pattern of self-sabotage and self-destructive lying, whore-humping wandering cock syndrome, boom-and-bust spending, and bumping business uglies with a constellation of sleazeballs.
It doesn’t matter if he’s trying to lose. The hard political reality is that the machine under him is doing everything they can to prevent it, and that the investment Fox has made in their pet president will serve as a powerful countervailing force against even his most damaging actions.
Trump, for all his fuckups and follies, still has a better-than-average chance of reelection. I’m going to outline the powerful assets and forces arrayed in Trump’s favor. I do this not to scare you, but to give you a clear-eyed perspective on just how difficult beating any incumbent president can be, to say nothing of one with the skill set in entertainment, transgression, and social-media manipulation in this president’s arsenal.
Do not mistake his clownishness and stupidity for a campaign that’s incompetent. The consulting people around him are not dumb, and they’re going to have unlimited resources. Underestimate my former colleagues and their appetite for survival at your peril.