Here's the thing about Trump: it's apparently next to impossible to get him to think before he speaks. If anything was going to prompt him to be more circumspect in his words, you'd think becoming the presumptive nominee for the general election would do that, but it hasn't: if anything, he's gotten worse and worse now that he's "safe" with regards to the nomination. We are heading into a general election in which on of the candidates is outwardly abhorrent to the majority of people outside of the core conservative base (the racist nutjobs whose vote has been on lockdown since day one anyway) and seemingly has no filter, nor ability to understand when his words are alarming or not 100% correct.
That worked out fine for him when he was the joke candidate in a field of a dozen or more, in which his fuckery, while extreme, just made him one asshole in a whole group of varying degrees of assholes; it's easier to swallow "Trump just said Mexicans are rapists," when the surrounding context also includes "Ben Carson suggested the pyramids were made to store grain," and "Mike Huckabee is treating a bigot who wants to get paid to not do her job like she's a hero," but that context quickly vanished. Now it's just one awful, awful man screeching about how judges who rule against him are haters and turning the worst mass shooting in history into something about him being right about muslims.
This will not do his approval ratings any good, and since by all accounts even his own campaign staff are so ineffective at campaigning and incapable of reining the man in, it's all really just down to what the Cheeto-in-Chief burbles into a microphone next. His is the only voice left, and opposite him will be Clinton, a woman that, regardless of what else you think of her, is at least mentally capable of restraining herself from saying horrible racist, sexist crap, and of proposing an actual political platform to run on.
The gravity of a general election is not conducive to the circus antics that have gotten Trump where he is, and he has months of time to speak all on his own, drawing an ever finer, deeper contrast between his own self-important bloviating and the things a real politician might say. The illusion that he might make an even palatable president is already beginning to drop everywhere, and his ego will allow him to do nothing but hasten that.
That worked out fine for him when he was the joke candidate in a field of a dozen or more, in which his fuckery, while extreme, just made him one asshole in a whole group of varying degrees of assholes; it's easier to swallow "Trump just said Mexicans are rapists," when the surrounding context also includes "Ben Carson suggested the pyramids were made to store grain," and "Mike Huckabee is treating a bigot who wants to get paid to not do her job like she's a hero," but that context quickly vanished. Now it's just one awful, awful man screeching about how judges who rule against him are haters and turning the worst mass shooting in history into something about him being right about muslims.
This will not do his approval ratings any good, and since by all accounts even his own campaign staff are so ineffective at campaigning and incapable of reining the man in, it's all really just down to what the Cheeto-in-Chief burbles into a microphone next. His is the only voice left, and opposite him will be Clinton, a woman that, regardless of what else you think of her, is at least mentally capable of restraining herself from saying horrible racist, sexist crap, and of proposing an actual political platform to run on.
The gravity of a general election is not conducive to the circus antics that have gotten Trump where he is, and he has months of time to speak all on his own, drawing an ever finer, deeper contrast between his own self-important bloviating and the things a real politician might say. The illusion that he might make an even palatable president is already beginning to drop everywhere, and his ego will allow him to do nothing but hasten that.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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