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The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« on: August 17, 2016, 01:32:25 pm »
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The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark

By Erick Erickson  |  August 17, 2016, 08:19am

The Trump campaign is undergoing another major shakeup as we get closer to the election. This time the Trump team is bringing Breitbart Chief Steve Bannon onboard from the Trump propaganda arm. Maybe Breitbart will show up in FEC disclosures. Maybe.

Bannon, according to the media, is encouraging Trump to go full on nationalist-populist, in other words take the campaign further into the gutter with fear and division. Instead of giving people someone to vote for, they’ll try to give people a reason to not vote for Hillary.

I suspect all this will do is drive more people away from Trump other than non-college educated white men. Many of those who have in recent days come to terms with voting for Trump will be given yet another reason to second guess that decision.

Bannon coming onto the Trump campaign is just a doubling down on crazy. It means the Trump campaign has not really learned any lessons, does not really recognize its message is not a winning message, and it’s just going to go out in a blaze of conspiracy theory and bitterness.

We are now moving beyond a dumpster fire. We’re more at Chernobyl. The only thing that’ll be coming out of the Trump campaign by November are three headed rats, which is kind of fitting.

You need to really absorb this Robert Costa report on the shakeup.

While Trump respects Manafort, the aides said, he has grown to feel “boxed in” and “controlled” by people who barely know him. Moving forward, he plans to focus intensely on rousing his voters at rallies and through media appearances.…

In Bannon especially, Trump is turning to an alter ego — a colorful, edgy figure on the right who has worked at Goldman Sachs and made several films, including a documentary about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

Bannon, in phone calls and meetings, has been urging Trump for months to not mount a fall campaign that makes Republican donors and officials comfortable, the aides said. Instead, Bannon has been telling Trump to run more fully as an outsider and an unabashed nationalist.
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2016, 01:35:12 pm »
The alt-right has prevailed with Trump.  All the white boys will be ecstatic.
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2016, 01:36:02 pm »
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While Trump respects Manafort, the aides said, he has grown to feel “boxed in” and “controlled” by people who barely know him.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with info about Manafort and his Russian handlers coming to light. :shrug:
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2016, 01:39:38 pm »

John Harwood
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Giuliani on Breitbart exec joining Trump campaign, Kellyanne Conway becoming manager: "this is what Reagan did when he brought Jim Baker in"


Giuliani has lost his mind.
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2016, 01:43:48 pm »
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2016, 01:44:13 pm »
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2016, 01:51:00 pm »
Dumpster fire times ten.
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2016, 01:52:53 pm »
How much longer before the Publix stock boy from Conservativenuthouse officially joins the "team"???
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2016, 01:53:08 pm »




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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2016, 01:53:48 pm »
Quote from: Gov Bean Counter on August 17, 2016, 01:52:53 pm
How much longer before the Publix stock boy from Conservativenuthouse officially joins the "team"???

LOL You mean the guy who was threatening Mark Levin?
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2016, 01:55:30 pm »
Oh yes please, go "full on nationalist-populist", show everyone what the Trump Campaign really stands for...
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2016, 01:55:45 pm »
Quote from: sinkspur on August 17, 2016, 01:35:12 pm
The alt-right has prevailed with Trump.  All the white boys will be ecstatic.

I'm sure all his Alt-Right, Neo-Nazi, White Supremacist fanboys that follow and re-tweet Trump on Twitter will be ecstatic.  Trump will probably return re-Tweeting them too.
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2016, 01:57:24 pm »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on August 17, 2016, 01:53:48 pm
LOL You mean the guy who was threatening Mark Levin?

That would be the one...
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2016, 02:20:15 pm »
Quote from: Ghost Bear on August 17, 2016, 01:55:30 pm
Oh yes please, go "full on nationalist-populist", show everyone what the Trump Campaign really stands for...
@Ghost Bear

That is what I think, too - let Trump be Trump so everyone sees he is mentally disturbed, as in genuinely "nuts".
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2016, 02:32:10 pm »
Quote from: sinkspur on August 17, 2016, 01:32:25 pm
While Trump respects Manafort, the aides said, he has grown to feel “boxed in” and “controlled” by people who barely know him. Moving forward, he plans to focus intensely on rousing his voters at rallies and through media appearances.…

I've seen this before.  It is the "tightening the inner circle" phase.... when malignant narcissists sense they're in trouble they begin limiting their personal interactions to people who they know will support them, whatever they say or do.  (Obama being another case in point.)

Manafort, for all his undoubted faults, is a political pro who knows what Trump ought to be doing.  But of course, any attempts to rein in Trump will be interpreted as disloyalty, and he must therefore be pushed out.

And it sounds like Steve Bannon is the sort of guy who is more than willing to give Trump his head.

Perfect.
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2016, 02:35:35 pm »
Quote from: Victoria33 on August 17, 2016, 02:20:15 pm
@Ghost Bear

That is what I think, too - let Trump be Trump so everyone sees he is mentally disturbed, as in genuinely "nuts".


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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2016, 02:38:12 pm »
Quote from: sinkspur on August 17, 2016, 01:35:12 pm
The alt-right has prevailed with Trump.  All the white boys will be ecstatic.

I'm a white boy, and I'm hardly ecstatic.
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2016, 02:39:38 pm »
Quote from: Ghost Bear on August 17, 2016, 01:55:30 pm
Oh yes please, go "full on nationalist-populist", show everyone what the Trump Campaign really stands for...

IOW, they're going Full Retard.

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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2016, 02:41:03 pm »
Quote from: Night Hides Not on August 17, 2016, 02:38:12 pm
I'm a white boy, and I'm hardly ecstatic.

Yeah, I'm completely sick of talking about race.
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2016, 02:42:23 pm »
Quote from: sinkspur on August 17, 2016, 01:32:25 pm

In Bannon especially, Trump is turning to an alter ego — a colorful, edgy figure on the right who has worked at Goldman Sachs and made several films, including a documentary about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.



POW!  Goldman Sachs!  BOOM!

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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2016, 02:53:28 pm »
Quote from: Night Hides Not on August 17, 2016, 02:39:38 pm
IOW, they're going Full Retard.



and even worse when the Trumpanzees go....
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #22 on: August 17, 2016, 03:09:43 pm »
Quote from: Half Vast Conspiracy on August 17, 2016, 02:42:23 pm
POW!  Goldman Sachs!  BOOM!




But........ but.............. Heidi Cruz!!
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2016, 09:57:07 pm »
Who are these aides????
Unlike Some politicians, Trump's "aides" wouldn't talk to the press.

If you can't name the aides, you have no story :nono:
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Re: The Trump Campaign Jumps the Shark
« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2016, 10:10:03 pm »
Which South American nation will Trump Town be built in??
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