Failure begets more rage, which begets greater rejection by the public.

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/08/24/trump-is-losing/

Trump is losing
By Jennifer Rubin | August 24 at 9:15 AM

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To sum up, the overwhelming majority of Americans think he is a lying, divisive hothead who is making race relations much worse. Trump barely has majority support (52 percent) among his most loyal segment of the electorate (whites with no college education). He has managed to turn off just about everyone else. He knows how to feed his base red meat but not how to earn the respect and confidence of everyone else. Several thousand people in an auditorium in Phoenix, it turns out, bears little resemblance to the country as a whole.

Trump can read off a teleprompter as he did in announcing his Afghanistan policy on Monday, behave like a madman on Tuesday and revert to a perfectly adequate (though wooden) speech to veterans on Wednesday. While some Americans might suffer from whiplash, most, we suspect, have figured out which is the real Trump is and which is the Trump who is playing the dummy to ventriloquists trying desperately to protect the country (e.g., Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and national security adviser H.R. McMaster).

Trump cannot operate off script without losing his cool and revealing his ignorance; his moments of restraint never last long. When he reads other people’s words and expresses sentiments not his own his delivery is flat and stilted. Only when he is in full rage-mode does he become animated. He must distract and attack lest the focus fall on him and his lack of accomplishments.

This is a man plainly driven by hate, resentment and maybe a little fear — yes, fear that the presidency is beyond his abilities and severely taxing his meager intellectual and emotional resources. Don’t expect him to improve. Failure begets more rage, which begets greater rejection by the public. It would be pathetic if it were not petrifying.

[BigmanPigman]

1. Anyone with one foot in reality knew he is who he is and would remain that way.

No one expected him to change really. He is 71 and has been like this all his life and he has been proud of that fact. If you ever expected him to behave differently once he was in office you're as delusional as he is.

[Caliman73]

6. Very true. Like that speech Michelle Obama gave.

"The Presidency does not change who you are, it magnifies who you are" She knew from the beginning that people do not "become presidential". Certainly you learn the role and you can learn some of the terminology, but if your personality is lacking what it takes to be dignified, even tempered, have true self confidence, and understand that the role is about service, then you will never be presidential. Every great President felt the weight of the office and knew that it was not about them. Even the less than great ones got out of the way of the role and tried to focus on the bigger picture. Trump IS the picture in Trump's mind. He is what matters and that will never change, and that is why he will go down as one of, if not the worst president in modern history.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. This is likely the column that produced Trump's "Analysis of my Own Speeches" tweets

What a buffoon.

[pennylane100]

3. Jennifer Rubin does a good job of going after Trump in her columns.

She was on an msnbc panel a couple of days ago and she goes for the jugular when a pro trump person is also on the panel. I think she is great/

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Scary conclusions...and is funny, it seems to describe his followers too...

Let's hope that the Uncontrolled Rage doesn't destroy or damage the great institutions of this country.

Such hate shown by tRUMP and his followers in his political rallies, has no place in American politics.

With the spittle that tRUMP and his followers are hurling at Congress and just about everyone else now, nothing good will come out of this administration.

The foundation of any administration is dictated by the actions of a competent leader and his team. What has happened instead, is that there is no tRUMP team, never was, never will be. Only tRUMP, period.

tRUMP is too vain to allow anyone else to have any kind of executive power, and thus doesn't delegate effectively, due to this very serious personality disorders that manifests themselves in tRUMP and his followers.

The cancer that is tRUMP is terminal, and is eating away at any leftover healthy tissue of the remaining tRUMP executive branch. No amount of chemo or surgery can excise the cancer.

Instead of being proactive, and taking ANY positive steps forward with the American people, tRUMP and his followers are lashing out at the overwhelming rest of us against any perceived insult or threat.

In their anger and rage, nothing constructive is being built, and all I see is destruction everywhere via the infinitely more easier task of dismantlement, which requires no thought or no intelligence to figure out.

Unfortunately in their blind anger and rage, the smoothly functioning economy, destroyed by republican greed in the 2007 through 2009 time frame, and rebuilt painstakingly by the Obama administration, will suffer, and we'll suffer another serious downturn...just a matter of time (it's time for a correction anyways).

Get ready and prepare yourselves. It's going to get worse.

[ffr]

8. +1

Them in a nutshell:

In their anger and rage, nothing constructive is being built, and all I see is destruction everywhere via the infinitely more easier task of dismantlement, which requires no thought or no intelligence to figure out.

[raven mad]

12. +1

tRUMP is too vain to allow anyone else to have any kind of executive power, and thus doesn't delegate effectively, due to this very serious personality disorders that manifests themselves in tRUMP and his followers.

I believe his serious personality disorders have devolved into dementia. Excellent post, SWBATATTReg.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Kick!

[ffr]

7. In summary: Republicans are plainly driven by hate, resentment and maybe a little fear.

Okay, I'm not entirely correct. A lot of fear.

In other words, vindictive.

[Permanut]

9. K & R n/t

[JHan]

10. Good read.

[Yonnie3]

11. This is what is called a positive feedback loop in control systems.

An output produces feedback which causes a larger output which causes a larger feedback which causes a larger output and so forth. There was an instance of an overhead crane, nicknamed "Head Hunter", that ran away and took out a wall and multiple vehicles in a parking lot because of such a loop. Fortunately there were no injuries, although two people lost their jobs. One was the programmer and the other was the maintenance technician that disabled the safety limit switch. The limit switch kills all power to the crane if it goes out of bounds.

If tRump is truly in such a loop he can only get worse.

Will the GOP allow him to remain in office as he gets worse? At what point will they take action? The bar keeps getting lower.

What equivalents are there for that safety limit switch?