Steve Deace
6 hrs ·
I am seriously wondering if Trump will make it to Cleveland. First two days on his own have been Chernobyl. Even worse than I predicted. With no straw men to demagogue and polling to prop him up, Trump has only himself now for the story. And as predicted, media has turned.
Trump is still dominating the news cycle, but it's all bad now. Worse than bad. He's become a clown show in just 2 days. Even what should be good news, former competitors now groveling at his feet, looks ridiculous because of what they said about each other.
Since Trump has already pivoted Left on almost every issue, he has nothing to take the focus off himself. Media has turned on Trump by keeping him the focal point of its coverage. They just flipped the meat over so we could see the uncooked side.
It's like Hillary and Bernie aren't even running, and we're watching Trump meltdown in his own solo version of the Truman Show. He may not survive to Cleveland, let alone win in November. Won"t just lose, but become a cultural laughing stock if this continues.
Because Trump has given the media the story it has always loved the most -- GOP Civil War/infighting. It may turn out that while Trump thought the media was helping him con the GOP, he was really the mark all along.
The media played him.
Trump is on the wrong end of The Sting, whose goal is to brand us (orthodox religion, morality conservatism, etc.) with him. The Left used Trump to corner us in a Kobayashi Maru scenario. Support him and lose your integrity, going all the way back to attacking Bill Clinton for his adulteries. Which makes you useless going forward.
Don't support him and you'll put them in charge. Either way, we will lose because by the time they're done with him, anyone attached to Trump is screwed.
That means the only way to win the War Games is not to play.
