Eugene Robinson is just so...damned...GOOD. He NAILS it every time.

[Miles Archer]

As Eugene Robinson argued in the Washington Post on Monday, however, it may be the other way around. Trump may be stepping up all of his most Trumpian behavior because he is terrified that he’s on track to lose.

“It overly flatters Trump to fear he’s playing three-dimensional chess or employing some kind of exotic political jiujitsu. What we’re hearing in his harangues and reading in his tweets is naked fear. And he has reason to be very afraid,” wrote Robinson. “Some traumatized Democrats may have lost all faith in polls following the 2016 election, but Trump hasn’t. We know he pays close attention to the numbers. We also know he watches Fox News obsessively, not as a way to follow current events but as a barometer of his support among his base.”

“Indeed, the Fox News national poll of registered voters showed Trump losing to former vice president Joe Biden by 10 points, 49 percent to 39 percent,” said Robinson. “It also showed him losing to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by six points and edging the other top-tier Democratic candidates, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), by a single point each.”

“Another survey released last week must have made Trump break out in a cold sweat,” added Robinson. “A Quinnipiac poll of registered voters in Ohio — a state Trump won in 2016 and absolutely needs to win again — showed him trailing Biden by eight points, 50 percent to 42 percent, and statistically tied with all the other leading Democratic contenders. Losing Ohio would almost surely mean a landslide electoral defeat.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-is-upping-his-racist-attacks-because-he-is-in-a-cold-sweat-that-hell-blow-2020-columnist/

[tulipsandroses]

1. I smell it too. Its smells like fear to me. I'm not buying the political jujitsu either.

He's got absolutely nothing to run on. He's got no wall, no factories, no plants, no better health plan, no infrastructure. He says the economy is good, but to who? Most working class folks are not buying stocks. They are having to work 2 and 3 jobs and drive Uber so yeah it looks like they are more people are employed if 1 person has 2 and 3 jobs. He's got Nothing! I smell FEAR!

So yeah, I want him to keep delivering his strategy to his base, keep it right on up. Thats all you've got after years to deliver to the American people?Strategy? This should be easy for our candidates to talk to those folks that can be won over. Not talking about the Trumpettes - they can't be won over.