What If Trump Weren't Nuts?

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2019/12/12/what-if-trump-werent-nuts/

What If Trump Weren’t Nuts?
December 12, 2019 at 8:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard

John Harris: “Let’s dispense, for the moment, with normative judgments of psychology and law and confine this instead to a purely analytical exercise about politics: What if Trump weren’t nuts? That word works well enough to describe a president who says things that no other presidents has said, who picks fights that no other president would pick, who has shattered so many norms that he has altered, perhaps permanently, Washington’s definition of normal. Even Trump, who would not agree that he is nuts, does not seem to mind and at times even jokes about the common perception among foes domestic and foreign that he is.”

“With an unemployment rate at just 3.5 percent, he would have a wide and possibly leisurely path to re-election, rather than the narrow and arduous one he is facing. More than that, he likely would be basking in recognition of how many of his signature ideas have crashed through old barriers and are driving the agenda in both parties.”

[Thomas Hurt]

1. I imagine to Trump and his mouthbreathers others calling him nuts just means he is a genius

All part of Donnie's plan.

[abqtommy]

2. "What If" can be a fun game to play but it's only a momentary relief from the reality that is better

taken care of sooner than later.

[Politicub]

3. He has a feral instinct for publicity, and always has.

This doesn't make him a genius per se, but it does make him dangerous in our media-saturated society.

The hunger for attention is what drives his every move and why he picks fights all the time. He uses twitter to insert himself into large news events; most recently it is Time's Person of the Year news.

I hope the drive for publicity is the petard by which he will be hoisted come next November. It's not true that all publicity is good publicity. That may be true for people, products and organizations that do not get noticed. But Trump does not have a problem getting exposure.