Trump is preemptively setting up scapegoats for future losses

[DetlefK]

http://theweek.com/articles/628384/why-donald-trump-wont-stop-talking-about-judge-curiel

Trump is ranting about Curiel's bias not because doing so is part of any kind of rational political strategy, but because he is going to lose the case. And if he loses, it must be somebody else's fault. He's not just talking about himself instead of something that actually matters to voters. He's talking to himself, telling himself a story of how big a winner he is, no matter how often he loses. And he's doing it in front of the entire country.

In a very basic sense, this is the emotional connection that Trump forged from the beginning of his campaign. Trump sees himself as a winner whose occasional setbacks are the result of other people's unfairness or incompetence. He has connected with a slice of the voting public that sees America's problems in similar terms: the fault of corrupt, incompetent, and disloyal elites.

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Trump isn't building anything. Indeed, he hasn't built anything in a good long time; for decades, he's been a marketer whose only product is his own mystique. And so it is with his political campaign. The purpose of the emotional connection he has forged is entirely personal: to reaffirm his own greatness, his own winningness. "I've always won and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is," he told supporters on the Monday conference call. The conversation keeps coming back to him because that's where he wants it to go. Because that's all his campaign has ever been about.

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But Trump isn't interested in getting the best result for the party. He's got a whole host of strategies for convincing himself that he's a winner even when he loses, because the loss is always somebody else's fault. And he's got a whole host of strategies for making sure that, monetarily and psychically speaking, the bulk of his losses hits somebody else's balance sheet rather than his own. Historically, those have been his priorities, and from the look of things, they still are.




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"I would have beaten Hillary if not for those traitors in the Republican Party and my not-so-smart campaign-staff. It would have been a HUGE victory."

Can you say "Dolchstoßlegende"?
The german soldiers of WWI were this close to victory, but the german politicians stabbed them in the back and brokered a peace-deal, just as victory was around the corner.

[gordianot]

1. I think this could be correct he is in serious trouble and will loose the court case.

The degree to which and ease the Republican party was scammed is a thing of beauty. It is much more difficult to scam Democrats.

[PJMcK]

3. You're right, however...

... I believe the court case has been postponed until the end of November, after the election. Donald Trump's loss of the case won't come until after he's lost the election.

[DetlefK]

4. But that only means that the Trump U case stays up for discussion.

If the trial were going on, people would say: "I can't wait for the trial to end so we can talk about the verdict."

But now that the trial has been postponed, people will say: "I can't wait for the trial to start, so we can have more than regurgitating the facts we already know."

[annabanana]

2. great insight

into a not so great "brain"

[pampango]

5. He is the master of the 'scapegoat'. Now it is the Mexicans and the Chinese. Tomorrow it will be

the 'traitors' in the republican party and his "not-so-smart" staff. The only good (or bad) thing about Donald's reliance on scapegoats is that he never deals with the real causes of his (or our) problems. He blames a scapegoat then moves on the next thought in his stream of consciousness.

Rest assured there is one person who will never be at fault - he Donald himself.