Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Garbage Fire

[RollingThunder]

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

The Good News Is That Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Strategic and Managerial Garbage Fire
New York Magazine
DAILY INTELLIGENCER - THE NATIONAL INTEREST
May 27, 2016
By Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. There is, however, an upside: Trump’s campaign is an absolute garbage fire. By all accounts it is the most organizationally and strategically inept campaign for a successful major-party nominee in recorded history. Ashley Parker and Maggie Haberman round up many of the details, but the basic story that emerges from their reports and others is that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing.

“Trump is reliant on information he garners himself, and can be swayed by the last person he talked to,” Parker and Haberman somewhat delicately put it. His campaign staff is far too small, and yet constantly at war with itself, already having gone through multiple shakeups and coups. In keeping with his general disdain for data, Trump has eschewed any use of analytics to target voters or competitive areas. Indeed, he has fixated bizarrely on plans to compete in New York and California, two states where any Republican faces hopeless odds against an entrenched Democratic electorate. He is currently in North Dakota for reasons nobody fully understands. He attacks fellow Republicans for no apparent reason. The super-pac donors who are supposed to be raising money on his behalf are disorganized and confused about basic questions like which super-pac they’re supposed to donate to.

To the extent that running a competent campaign matters, it will hurt Trump very badly. Yes, he won the Republican primary by relying on a massive imbalance of media coverage and exploiting a divided, extremely large field that failed to coalesce against him. Yes, he tapped into deep strains of anger in the conservative base that fellow Republicans ignored. But he’s not a political savant, and he hasn’t abolished the rules of politics. He's a reality-television performer who tapped into a deep vein of cultural resentment that appeals to a decided minority of the electorate. Fortunately, many of the same qualities that would make Trump epically dangerous in the presidency — his impulsive ignorance, blustering arrogance, and contempt for data — also make him unlikely to obtain it.

 

[Kat]

LOL

 

[Jackson]

Interestingly enough, this quote has similarities to Clinton:

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

The comparison is not favoring dear Hillary. She is so incompetent, she cannot follow the first demands of the Office of Secretary of State. She had a two hour meeting explaining the use of the government email for work emails, the fact that it was her responsibility to mark TOP SECRET documents properly and all emails from her office were not hers, but the belonged to the government, archives department. She even signed a document explaining those facts. But, email is too hard for her to understand? And she wants to be the ultimate diplomat representing our country as president?

After her stint as SoS, she was met with yet another crisis that turned into scandal. That is precisely her MO has been for the last 20 years! And that was before the Cash fo Clintons, Clinton Foundation where she accepted lucrative donations from foreign governments and "forgot? to record them as required by the president.

Then there was Benghazi when it was up to her to supply the needed protection for our servicemen and ambassador. Her reply, "What difference does it make?"

And now she thinks she is going to win votes by arranging a CO-Presidency with the man who can't keep his pants zipped up and lies as often as she does. Swell, I seem to remember an impeachment... that's right, put him in the Oval Office again!

And you worry about Trump?

 

[RollingThunder]

Interestingly enough, this quote has similarities to Clinton:

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

Only in your diseased little rightwingnut excuse for a mind, Jackoff.

Nobody cares about your moronic myths and ideological fanaticism or your lame attempt to deflect attention from the actual topic of the thread....Trump's screwed up amateur campaign.....which you ran from.

 

[The Great Goose]

Goes to show how useful bloody "demographers" are.

Go Trump.

 

[emilynghiem]

Interestingly enough, this quote has similarities to Clinton:

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

The comparison is not favoring dear Hillary. She is so incompetent, she cannot follow the first demands of the Office of Secretary of State. She had a two hour meeting explaining the use of the government email for work emails, the fact that it was her responsibility to mark TOP SECRET documents properly and all emails from her office were not hers, but the belonged to the government, archives department. She even signed a document explaining those facts. But, email is too hard for her to understand? And she wants to be the ultimate diplomat representing our country as president?

After her stint as SoS, she was met with yet another crisis that turned into scandal. That is precisely her MO has been for the last 20 years! And that was before the Cash fo Clintons, Clinton Foundation where she accepted lucrative donations from foreign governments and "forgot? to record them as required by the president.

Then there was Benghazi when it was up to her to supply the needed protection for our servicemen and ambassador. Her reply, "What difference does it make?"

And now she thinks she is going to win votes by arranging a CO-Presidency with the man who can't keep his pants zipped up and lies as often as she does. Swell, I seem to remember an impeachment... that's right, put him in the Oval Office again!

And you worry about Trump?

It's more like which disasters and drama soap opera
do you want to see in the media every day: Clinton or Trump.

With Clinton we'll only see the right raising heck against her, while the left covers up and kowtows.
With Trump we might see both sides going at it. Which do you prefer?
A constant battle in public or a battle half covered and half exposed in public? Take your pick.
Then take cover...

 

[Jackson]

Interestingly enough, this quote has similarities to Clinton:

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

Only in your diseased little rightwingnut excuse for a mind, Jackoff.

Nobody cares about your moronic myths and ideological fanaticism or your lame attempt to deflect attention from the actual topic of the thread....Trump's screwed up amateur campaign.....which you ran from.

In other words, you cannot disagree with anything I mentioned.

 

[Muhammed]

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

The Good News Is That Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Strategic and Managerial Garbage Fire
New York Magazine
DAILY INTELLIGENCER - THE NATIONAL INTEREST
May 27, 2016
By Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. There is, however, an upside: Trump’s campaign is an absolute garbage fire. By all accounts it is the most organizationally and strategically inept campaign for a successful major-party nominee in recorded history. Ashley Parker and Maggie Haberman round up many of the details, but the basic story that emerges from their reports and others is that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing.

“Trump is reliant on information he garners himself, and can be swayed by the last person he talked to,” Parker and Haberman somewhat delicately put it. His campaign staff is far too small, and yet constantly at war with itself, already having gone through multiple shakeups and coups. In keeping with his general disdain for data, Trump has eschewed any use of analytics to target voters or competitive areas. Indeed, he has fixated bizarrely on plans to compete in New York and California, two states where any Republican faces hopeless odds against an entrenched Democratic electorate. He is currently in North Dakota for reasons nobody fully understands. He attacks fellow Republicans for no apparent reason. The super-pac donors who are supposed to be raising money on his behalf are disorganized and confused about basic questions like which super-pac they’re supposed to donate to.

To the extent that running a competent campaign matters, it will hurt Trump very badly. Yes, he won the Republican primary by relying on a massive imbalance of media coverage and exploiting a divided, extremely large field that failed to coalesce against him. Yes, he tapped into deep strains of anger in the conservative base that fellow Republicans ignored. But he’s not a political savant, and he hasn’t abolished the rules of politics. He's a reality-television performer who tapped into a deep vein of cultural resentment that appeals to a decided minority of the electorate. Fortunately, many of the same qualities that would make Trump epically dangerous in the presidency — his impulsive ignorance, blustering arrogance, and contempt for data — also make him unlikely to obtain it.

Clintonites like you are absolutelly bizarre.

Where the hell do you come up with this bizarre-o-land bullshit?


How can anyone be so fucking stupid?

 

[Esmeralda]

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

The Good News Is That Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Strategic and Managerial Garbage Fire
New York Magazine
DAILY INTELLIGENCER - THE NATIONAL INTEREST
May 27, 2016
By Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. There is, however, an upside: Trump’s campaign is an absolute garbage fire. By all accounts it is the most organizationally and strategically inept campaign for a successful major-party nominee in recorded history. Ashley Parker and Maggie Haberman round up many of the details, but the basic story that emerges from their reports and others is that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing.

“Trump is reliant on information he garners himself, and can be swayed by the last person he talked to,” Parker and Haberman somewhat delicately put it. His campaign staff is far too small, and yet constantly at war with itself, already having gone through multiple shakeups and coups. In keeping with his general disdain for data, Trump has eschewed any use of analytics to target voters or competitive areas. Indeed, he has fixated bizarrely on plans to compete in New York and California, two states where any Republican faces hopeless odds against an entrenched Democratic electorate. He is currently in North Dakota for reasons nobody fully understands. He attacks fellow Republicans for no apparent reason. The super-pac donors who are supposed to be raising money on his behalf are disorganized and confused about basic questions like which super-pac they’re supposed to donate to.

To the extent that running a competent campaign matters, it will hurt Trump very badly. Yes, he won the Republican primary by relying on a massive imbalance of media coverage and exploiting a divided, extremely large field that failed to coalesce against him. Yes, he tapped into deep strains of anger in the conservative base that fellow Republicans ignored. But he’s not a political savant, and he hasn’t abolished the rules of politics. He's a reality-television performer who tapped into a deep vein of cultural resentment that appeals to a decided minority of the electorate. Fortunately, many of the same qualities that would make Trump epically dangerous in the presidency — his impulsive ignorance, blustering arrogance, and contempt for data — also make him unlikely to obtain it.

"Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. "

Truer words were never said.

 

[RollingThunder]

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.
The Good News Is That Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Strategic and Managerial Garbage Fire
New York Magazine
May 27, 2016

^^^^^
"Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. There is, however, an upside: Trump’s campaign is an absolute garbage fire. By all accounts it is the most organizationally and strategically inept campaign for a successful major-party nominee in recorded history. ...the basic story that emerges is that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. Fortunately, many of the same qualities that would make Trump epically dangerous in the presidency — his impulsive ignorance, blustering arrogance, and contempt for data — also make him unlikely to obtain it."

It's more like which disasters and drama soap opera do you want to see in the media every day: Clinton or Trump.

Insanely false equivalency from another clueless nutbagger or kook.

With Clinton we'll only see the right raising heck against her, while the left covers up and kowtows. With Trump we might see both sides going at it. Which do you prefer? A constant battle in public or a battle half covered and half exposed in public? Take your pick. Then take cover...

Meaningless demented drivel from some deranged rightwingnut fantasyland.

You obviously have no idea whatsoever what is going on. Which could indicate either a lot of brainwashing in the rightwingnut media spinner, or severe retardation....or more likely both! The first step towards seeing what is actually happening in the real world for you rightwingnut yo-yos is alway to pull your head out of your ass. Try that.

 

[RollingThunder]

In other words, you cannot disagree with anything I mentioned.

LOLOLOLOL......riiight, Jackoff, that must be why I referred to your tripe as "moronic myths and ideological fanaticism" and "your lame attempt to deflect attention from the actual topic of the thread....Trump's screwed up amateur campaign.....which you ran from". LOLOLOL. That sure does sound like agreement, all right...if you happen to be utterly retarded, like you apparently are.

 

[Esmeralda]

Interestingly enough, this quote has similarities to Clinton:

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

Only in your diseased little rightwingnut excuse for a mind, Jackoff.

Nobody cares about your moronic myths and ideological fanaticism or your lame attempt to deflect attention from the actual topic of the thread....Trump's screwed up amateur campaign.....which you ran from.

In other words, you cannot disagree with anything I mentioned.

 

[Esmeralda]

Interestingly enough, this quote has similarities to Clinton:

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

The comparison is not favoring dear Hillary. She is so incompetent, she cannot follow the first demands of the Office of Secretary of State. She had a two hour meeting explaining the use of the government email for work emails, the fact that it was her responsibility to mark TOP SECRET documents properly and all emails from her office were not hers, but the belonged to the government, archives department. She even signed a document explaining those facts. But, email is too hard for her to understand? And she wants to be the ultimate diplomat representing our country as president?

After her stint as SoS, she was met with yet another crisis that turned into scandal. That is precisely her MO has been for the last 20 years! And that was before the Cash fo Clintons, Clinton Foundation where she accepted lucrative donations from foreign governments and "forgot? to record them as required by the president.

Then there was Benghazi when it was up to her to supply the needed protection for our servicemen and ambassador. Her reply, "What difference does it make?"

And now she thinks she is going to win votes by arranging a CO-Presidency with the man who can't keep his pants zipped up and lies as often as she does. Swell, I seem to remember an impeachment... that's right, put him in the Oval Office again!

And you worry about Trump?

 

[emilynghiem]

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.
The Good News Is That Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Strategic and Managerial Garbage Fire
New York Magazine
May 27, 2016

^^^^^
"Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. There is, however, an upside: Trump’s campaign is an absolute garbage fire. By all accounts it is the most organizationally and strategically inept campaign for a successful major-party nominee in recorded history. ...the basic story that emerges is that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. Fortunately, many of the same qualities that would make Trump epically dangerous in the presidency — his impulsive ignorance, blustering arrogance, and contempt for data — also make him unlikely to obtain it."

It's more like which disasters and drama soap opera do you want to see in the media every day: Clinton or Trump.

Insanely false equivalency from another clueless nutbagger or kook.

With Clinton we'll only see the right raising heck against her, while the left covers up and kowtows. With Trump we might see both sides going at it. Which do you prefer? A constant battle in public or a battle half covered and half exposed in public? Take your pick. Then take cover...

Meaningless demented drivel from some deranged rightwingnut fantasyland.

You obviously have no idea whatsoever what is going on. Which could indicate either a lot of brainwashing in the rightwingnut media spinner, or severe retardation....or more likely both! The first step towards seeing what is actually happening in the real world for you rightwingnut yo-yos is alway to pull your head out of your ass. Try that.

Dear RollingThunder
Neither party is following the Constitution.
Otherwise neither the ACA, the marriage laws or now the transgender discrimination policies
would be decided through federal govt.
So anything goes.

Whatever politics can pass, and get paid for by corporate interests
and slip past criticisms in the media, politicians can justify anything.

So now we have Trump who can continue to buy out business, corporate and political interests.
And we have Clinton who can pull her strings.

All we can do is watch what gets publicized in the media.
That's what I'm talking about.

RollingThunder I even offered to work with teams to write the
actual legislative or executive order corrections needed to clean up some of these conflicts.
People won't respond. Very few feel we can do this ourselves, write up proposed corrections
and actually get anywhere with state officials, governors or federal govt.

So THAT's what I mean RollingThunder
everyone is resigned to sit back and watch the soap opera.
complaining about problems, but not doing anything to correct them,
well knowing these politicians aren't in the business of doing that either.

 

[Wyatt earp]

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

The Good News Is That Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Strategic and Managerial Garbage Fire
New York Magazine
DAILY INTELLIGENCER - THE NATIONAL INTEREST
May 27, 2016
By Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. There is, however, an upside: Trump’s campaign is an absolute garbage fire. By all accounts it is the most organizationally and strategically inept campaign for a successful major-party nominee in recorded history. Ashley Parker and Maggie Haberman round up many of the details, but the basic story that emerges from their reports and others is that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing.

“Trump is reliant on information he garners himself, and can be swayed by the last person he talked to,” Parker and Haberman somewhat delicately put it. His campaign staff is far too small, and yet constantly at war with itself, already having gone through multiple shakeups and coups. In keeping with his general disdain for data, Trump has eschewed any use of analytics to target voters or competitive areas. Indeed, he has fixated bizarrely on plans to compete in New York and California, two states where any Republican faces hopeless odds against an entrenched Democratic electorate. He is currently in North Dakota for reasons nobody fully understands. He attacks fellow Republicans for no apparent reason. The super-pac donors who are supposed to be raising money on his behalf are disorganized and confused about basic questions like which super-pac they’re supposed to donate to.

To the extent that running a competent campaign matters, it will hurt Trump very badly. Yes, he won the Republican primary by relying on a massive imbalance of media coverage and exploiting a divided, extremely large field that failed to coalesce against him. Yes, he tapped into deep strains of anger in the conservative base that fellow Republicans ignored. But he’s not a political savant, and he hasn’t abolished the rules of politics. He's a reality-television performer who tapped into a deep vein of cultural resentment that appeals to a decided minority of the electorate. Fortunately, many of the same qualities that would make Trump epically dangerous in the presidency — his impulsive ignorance, blustering arrogance, and contempt for data — also make him unlikely to obtain it.

"Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. "

Truer words were never said.

As oppose to the messiah?

China island building, Crimea, Isis, Yeoman, Iran....

 

[mamooth]

The Trump campaign is broke. And despite his claims, Trump is not self-funding it in any way.

Trump camp concedes it's low on money
---
Donald Trump's campaign has alerted Senate Republicans that he won't have much money to spend fending off attacks from Hillary Clinton over the next couple months.

The notice came when Paul Manafort, Trump's senior advisor, met with a group of Senate Republican chiefs of staff for lunch last week, sources familiar with the meeting told the Washington Examiner. The admission suggests that Trump will be far more dependent on the GOP brass for money than he has led voters to believe, but it's consistent with his reliance on the Republican National Committee to provide a ground game in battleground states.
---

Trump himself, he'll get more free media coverage by acting insane in public. Such coverage pumps up the loony Republican base, so it worked in the primary. However, it repels the majority of people, so it's a big fail in the general.

The big donors? They're staying away from Trump. They can smell a loser. They'll spend their money on other races.

The problem for the GOP is the downballot races. State parties normally count on the presidential candidate to fund a GetOutTheVote (GOTV) organization. Trump isn't doing that. He's telling the GOP they'll have to do it for him. In contrast, Clinton has spent the last year building up a massive GOTV network. She's an asset to the state parties, while Trump is a liability.

 

[RollingThunder]

Dear RollingThunder
Neither party is following the Constitution.
Otherwise neither the ACA, the marriage laws or now the transgender discrimination policies would be decided through federal govt.

LOLOLOLOL......so now you want to sound reasonable.......unfortunately you just sound like an ignorant regressive rightwingnut teabagger, severely afflicted by the Dunning-Kruger Effect into foolishly imagining that she understand the Constitution better than everybody else, and who has swallowed the rightwingnut bogus myths and lies about the Affordable Care Act, gay marriage legalization, and bans on transgender discrimination, which, BTW, are all quite legal and Constitutional in the real world.

I even offered to work with teams to write the actual legislative or executive order corrections needed to clean up some of these conflicts. People won't respond.

So you are extremely delusional too. No surprise.

You live in a teabagger fantasy world created by Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers and their propaganda pushers....and you're too retarded to notice how crazy you sound when you parrot their self-serving nonsense and lies.

 

[TNHarley]

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

The Good News Is That Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Strategic and Managerial Garbage Fire
New York Magazine
DAILY INTELLIGENCER - THE NATIONAL INTEREST
May 27, 2016
By Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. There is, however, an upside: Trump’s campaign is an absolute garbage fire. By all accounts it is the most organizationally and strategically inept campaign for a successful major-party nominee in recorded history. Ashley Parker and Maggie Haberman round up many of the details, but the basic story that emerges from their reports and others is that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing.

“Trump is reliant on information he garners himself, and can be swayed by the last person he talked to,” Parker and Haberman somewhat delicately put it. His campaign staff is far too small, and yet constantly at war with itself, already having gone through multiple shakeups and coups. In keeping with his general disdain for data, Trump has eschewed any use of analytics to target voters or competitive areas. Indeed, he has fixated bizarrely on plans to compete in New York and California, two states where any Republican faces hopeless odds against an entrenched Democratic electorate. He is currently in North Dakota for reasons nobody fully understands. He attacks fellow Republicans for no apparent reason. The super-pac donors who are supposed to be raising money on his behalf are disorganized and confused about basic questions like which super-pac they’re supposed to donate to.

To the extent that running a competent campaign matters, it will hurt Trump very badly. Yes, he won the Republican primary by relying on a massive imbalance of media coverage and exploiting a divided, extremely large field that failed to coalesce against him. Yes, he tapped into deep strains of anger in the conservative base that fellow Republicans ignored. But he’s not a political savant, and he hasn’t abolished the rules of politics. He's a reality-television performer who tapped into a deep vein of cultural resentment that appeals to a decided minority of the electorate. Fortunately, many of the same qualities that would make Trump epically dangerous in the presidency — his impulsive ignorance, blustering arrogance, and contempt for data — also make him unlikely to obtain it.

"Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. "

Truer words were never said.

says the woman that supports a neo-con with a history of foreign policy fuck-ups

 

[RollingThunder]

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

The Good News Is That Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Strategic and Managerial Garbage Fire
New York Magazine
DAILY INTELLIGENCER - THE NATIONAL INTEREST
May 27, 2016
By Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. There is, however, an upside: Trump’s campaign is an absolute garbage fire. By all accounts it is the most organizationally and strategically inept campaign for a successful major-party nominee in recorded history. Ashley Parker and Maggie Haberman round up many of the details, but the basic story that emerges from their reports and others is that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing.

“Trump is reliant on information he garners himself, and can be swayed by the last person he talked to,” Parker and Haberman somewhat delicately put it. His campaign staff is far too small, and yet constantly at war with itself, already having gone through multiple shakeups and coups. In keeping with his general disdain for data, Trump has eschewed any use of analytics to target voters or competitive areas. Indeed, he has fixated bizarrely on plans to compete in New York and California, two states where any Republican faces hopeless odds against an entrenched Democratic electorate. He is currently in North Dakota for reasons nobody fully understands. He attacks fellow Republicans for no apparent reason. The super-pac donors who are supposed to be raising money on his behalf are disorganized and confused about basic questions like which super-pac they’re supposed to donate to.

To the extent that running a competent campaign matters, it will hurt Trump very badly. Yes, he won the Republican primary by relying on a massive imbalance of media coverage and exploiting a divided, extremely large field that failed to coalesce against him. Yes, he tapped into deep strains of anger in the conservative base that fellow Republicans ignored. But he’s not a political savant, and he hasn’t abolished the rules of politics. He's a reality-television performer who tapped into a deep vein of cultural resentment that appeals to a decided minority of the electorate. Fortunately, many of the same qualities that would make Trump epically dangerous in the presidency — his impulsive ignorance, blustering arrogance, and contempt for data — also make him unlikely to obtain it.

"Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. "

Truer words were never said.

says the woman that supports a neo-con with a history of foreign policy fuck-ups

LOLOLOLOLOL......and you are so retarded that you believe that an ignorant, bombastic, blovating, anti-science, anti-environmental, global warming denying, lying, fascist blowhard would make a good President.

 

[TNHarley]

A little look behind the scenes at the Trump campaign reveals that the maniac who would obviously be completely incompetent to handle the Presidency is also (fortunately) much too incompetent to manage his own campaign for President with any intelligence or skill.

The Good News Is That Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Absolute Strategic and Managerial Garbage Fire
New York Magazine
DAILY INTELLIGENCER - THE NATIONAL INTEREST
May 27, 2016
By Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. There is, however, an upside: Trump’s campaign is an absolute garbage fire. By all accounts it is the most organizationally and strategically inept campaign for a successful major-party nominee in recorded history. Ashley Parker and Maggie Haberman round up many of the details, but the basic story that emerges from their reports and others is that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing.

“Trump is reliant on information he garners himself, and can be swayed by the last person he talked to,” Parker and Haberman somewhat delicately put it. His campaign staff is far too small, and yet constantly at war with itself, already having gone through multiple shakeups and coups. In keeping with his general disdain for data, Trump has eschewed any use of analytics to target voters or competitive areas. Indeed, he has fixated bizarrely on plans to compete in New York and California, two states where any Republican faces hopeless odds against an entrenched Democratic electorate. He is currently in North Dakota for reasons nobody fully understands. He attacks fellow Republicans for no apparent reason. The super-pac donors who are supposed to be raising money on his behalf are disorganized and confused about basic questions like which super-pac they’re supposed to donate to.

To the extent that running a competent campaign matters, it will hurt Trump very badly. Yes, he won the Republican primary by relying on a massive imbalance of media coverage and exploiting a divided, extremely large field that failed to coalesce against him. Yes, he tapped into deep strains of anger in the conservative base that fellow Republicans ignored. But he’s not a political savant, and he hasn’t abolished the rules of politics. He's a reality-television performer who tapped into a deep vein of cultural resentment that appeals to a decided minority of the electorate. Fortunately, many of the same qualities that would make Trump epically dangerous in the presidency — his impulsive ignorance, blustering arrogance, and contempt for data — also make him unlikely to obtain it.

"Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would pose an unprecedented threat to the health of American democracy and possibly world stability. "

Truer words were never said.

says the woman that supports a neo-con with a history of foreign policy fuck-ups

LOLOLOLOLOL......and you are so retarded that you believe that an ignorant, bombastic, blovating, anti-science, anti-environmental, global warming denying, lying, fascist blowhard would make a good President.

no, I didn't vote for cruz