Game Over for Trump

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Desperation. Reeks of it.

Which makes me worry about how much lower Trump will take our political discourse in front of a Super Bowl sized audience.

I agree, Trump's getting really desperate.

Not just desperate but petulantly vindictive. He ran for the GOP nomination and now doesn't seem to care a bit whether he takes it down in flames with him. If he had any concern for his adopted party -- much less a shred of decency or integrity -- he'd acknowledge the myriad ways he has fucked his own campaign, make whatever olive branch offering he can to what's left of GOP down-ticket prospects, and work to ensure GOP control of Congress -- even if it means publicly falling on his own sword for the "greater good" of his party. But of course he won't, since this is all about him and everyone else can go to hell. He's a child lionized and supported by children.

And please note: I am not a Republican. I don't shill for them and don't support them. But I do feel a slight twinge of compassion for those Republicans (not the leadership but the rank-and-file) who never supported Trump to begin with and who have been stuck with this buffoon as their public standard-bearer. But it's a twinge only because Trump is the logical outcome of the strategy their party leadership has pursued since at least '68, and the party is now getting what it richly deserves. Perhaps now, finally, they will start getting serious about becoming the big tent party they've always claimed to be. But that will require jettisoning the dipshit lunatic base and the Jesus freaks they've courted for so long.

I don't envy their top strategists post-Trump. I sure as hell wouldn't want the job.