An interesting idea is that Trump’s campaign started as a prank or at least just an ego game, and along the way he found himself riding the tiger with no idea how to get off without getting eaten or at least mauled.
Imagine for a moment the above is true. So next week he decides to announce “I quit the race.” How does he keep his ego intact and more importantly, his image of his ego which is what powers his businesses that power his expensive lifestyle. Not gonna happen.
And that’s just for a non-committal “I quit”. How much more complicated for “I quit because …” We know he won’t be able to resist filling in the blank.
My bottom line: even if it started as a prank, he’s now riding the tiger and will go all in to win it. The way he escapes the prank with ego & ego story intact is to lose the nomination or failing that, to lose the election.
Let’s just hope he doesn’t end up spending the next 4 years pranking the whole damn country.
He may have started that way, but at this point I don’t think he even wants to get off. All this adulation makes him think he can actually win now - a look at his competition can only confirm that, too, in his mind and in anyone else’s, for that matter.
He ain’t quittin’ ‘til he’s losin’, no reason to - and there is no sign yet that’s going to happen until November at the earliest.
Trump reminds me somewhat of Alan Clark. When Clark was standing for selection for his constituency after a number of scandals, he was asked if he had any more skeletons in the closet, and he replied with a grin, “Lots!” After that, selection was assured.
Actually, even better would be “I told the RNC that I wouldn’t support them if they pulled anything shady, and I know now that they are trying to take me out. I refuse to help the Republican Party any longer…”
Since he would be surrounded by supporters, he would lose at least one.
And the others would beat him because the screams of pain would disrupt the rally.
If he pulled that one you could hear the sound of redneck heads asploding from all the way over there in Thailand! It’d be like the biggest batch of popcorn ever popped. It’d be Great!
After all, he did support her in the past.