Drumpf yelled, threatened, interrupted--and changed nothing. He's losing.

[BlueWavePsych]

Trump’s Theory of the Debate Was All Wrong
In Cleveland, the president yelled, threatened, interrupted—and changed nothing. He’s losing.

Trump walked onto that stage in Cleveland seven or eight points behind, because the traditional Republican advantage among upper-income and educated voters has dwindled; because non-college-educated white women have turned against him; because he is losing older voters to his mishandling of COVID-19; because the groups he needs to be demobilized—African Americans, the young—are up-mobilized. On the present trajectory, nearly 150 million votes are likely to be cast in 2020. If Trump wins 43 percent of them and Joe Biden 50 percent, not even the Electoral College can convert that negative margin into a second Trump term.

Instead, he talked to Facebook conspiracists, to the angriest of ultra-Republican partisans, and to violent white supremacists. He urged the Proud Boys to “stand by” because “somebody’s got to do something” about “antifa and the left.” He refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power in the (likely) event that he loses. He threatened months and months of chaos if the election does not go his way.

Trump yelled, threatened, interrupted—and changed nothing. All he did was confirm the horror and revulsion of the large American majority that has already begun to cast its ballots against him.

Biden may be faded from what he was: perhaps less crisp, less sharp, less fast. But when Biden spoke, he spoke to and about America. Trump spoke only about his wounded ego. Biden communicated: I care about you. Trump communicated: I hate everybody. Biden succeeded in putting his most important messages on record: your health care, your job, your right to equal respect, regardless of race or creed—all against Trump’s disregard and disrespect. Trump might have imagined that he projected himself as strong. The whole world witnessed instead the destructive rage of a bully confronting impending defeat. Trump disgraced the presidency on that stage. He might just have delivered the self-incapacitating wound that pushes the country toward self-salvation.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/trumps-losing/616543/

Coming from David Frum, a GOP mainstay, Drumpf is truly toast.

[dalton99a]

1. Let Trump be Trump. He's doing fine

[Grins]

2. not even the Electoral College can convert that negative margin?

“...not even the Electoral College can convert that negative margin into a second Trump term.“

Really? You SURE about that? Really sure?

[Indykatie]

3. Dave Frum Has Been On To Trump for a Long Time

[regnaD kciN]

4. He's been a NeverTrumper from the start...

...which means that his opinion, as well-stated as it is, doesn’t signify a new Republican shift against COVID-45.

[BlueWavePsych]

5. Agree. No Republican shift. But ...

A Republican break by fiscal conservatives? Probable. Even some social conservatives, eg Evangelicals, can't stomach Drumpf. All that is needed is enough to abstain at key swing states for a Biden landslide.