Is all the stress going to Trump's head?

[Lyin' Steve]

He seems to be behaving more and more irrationally and to be less coordinated every day.  He had his act together during the primaries but just doesn't know.  What was the last Trump publicity stunt?  What was the last original Trump idea?  Y'all say he's an idiot but he's never been this confused and lost.  I really think the pressure he's under is getting to him, he doesn't have a break, the stress and crushing sense that he's losing it is keeping him up at night and eating away at his drive. 

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Dementia.

[RFayette]

Do you not remember the dumpster fire that was the Trump campaign from late March up until right before the NY primary?  Trump's performance is like an oscillating spring.  It's not static, and it doesn't move in just one direction.

[IceSpear]

Trump did a lot better in the primaries than he will do in the general election for a very simple reason: among Republican primary voters, something like 90% of the electorate were angry resentful old white people. Among the general electorate, it's more like 40%. It's really not that complicated. It's the same reason Hillary's dominance among minorities won't help her nearly as much in the general as it did in the primaries.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Dementia.

Is he having trouble recalling names of everyday objects and familiar people? Is he repeating sentences? These are the signs I would look for.

(Pat Summit's death made me read up on dementia.)

[Landslide Lyndon]

What are you talking about? The guy has the time of his life.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Dementia.

Is he having trouble recalling names of everyday objects and familiar people? Is he repeating sentences? These are the signs I would look for.

(Pat Summit's death made me read up on dementia.)

Yes.

From "something" (that he cannot articulate) about Obama, to the name of the EPA, to how he supported the Iraq War, terrorist groups he's previously denounced,  Samuel L. Jackson, Serge Kovaleski, and David Duke, he regularly forgets people and things exist. 


Repeating things, problems finding words (particularly complex ones), impaired social judgement, and problems with organization and planning are also signs of dementia.

Sound like a presidential candidate near you? (Hey, what do you know, TrumpMiller really is like Reagan!)

[pbrower2a]

I see Donald Trump as a real-life J. R. Ewing, someone who can get away with despotic management as the boss of a business empire -- hollow and unfeeling. He may care about others' image of him if such serves his ends, but he cares more about his image than about the people who hold the image.

As the most powerful man in the world, his hollowness and shallowness would make him a disaster. He would try to govern like a dictatorial CEO, which is incompatible with the Constitutional reality. He can fire the entire staff of a resort with impunity, but he can't fire a Justice of the Supreme Court, the Governor of California, a Senator from Michigan, or the anchorman of ABC, CBS, or NBC nightly newscasts. He might love to stifle Rachel Maddow, but he won't get away with it. She'd go on Canadian TV, and cable companies would pick up the channel carrying her show.

What he says about foreigners and people that he considers questionable about their American-ness he dares not say of people whose American identity is unquestioned. But he will question how American anyone is once that person disputes his claim to truth.   

Donald Trump will make George W. Bush look benign by contrast. Dubya may have been a buffoon, but he simply ignored his opponents, trying to make them irrelevant. Donald Trump will vilify his enemies and opponents, and what his staffers have shown to hecklers may be what some secret police new to America does to people who get in the way. Some of us might want to look into other countries  as places to live in the event of a Trump Presidency, especially if our jobs have no geographic requirement. Maybe you will prefer Coimbra to Columbus, Tucuman to Tulsa, Munich to Miami, Warsaw to Washington, Bangalore to Baltimore, or even Shanghai to Chicago for the duration.

By "Warsaw" I do not mean Warsaw, Indiana. 

     

[TomC]

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