Not Losing the election - wound up exposing them for who they really were.

[kpete]

From the moment of victory, the Trump administration became a looking-glass presidency: Every inverse assumption about how to assemble and run a White House was enacted and compounded, many times over. The decisions that Trump and his top advisers made in those first few months — from the slapdash transition to the disarray in the West Wing — set the stage for the chaos and dysfunction that have persisted throughout his first year in office. This was a real-life version of Mel Brooks’s The Producers, where the mistaken outcome trusted by everyone in Trump’s inner circle — that they would lose the election — wound up exposing them for who they really were.



the rest:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html

[Hav]

1. Michelle Obama got it right

"The Presidency doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are."

Link to tweet

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. I told hubs right after the election...

Only by winning could he lose it all.