i'd say that the trump campaign has fucked up one group above all others: political consultants. for some reason, such people are also 'pundits' on tv and stuff. for decades, they'd totter out to speak strategically about strategy. well, notice, if the trump model could generalize, all of these people's technology to allegedly manipulate your tiny mind, all their polling and focus-groups, and little-bitsy strategic phrases and carefully shifting positions to get this or that group etc would be obsolete. it's gotten to the point where you see anna navarro or donna brazile - much less the third-line people - attributing magic powers to trump. he can do no wrong! every move is brilliant! everything he touches turns to gold! how does he do it? they used to laugh; now they smile ruefully; soon their candidates will sink like lusitanias and they'll really be reaching for any kind of simulation of a smile on television they can muster.
well, one thing is, if you just say colorfully what you think, or get in and mix it up with insults cause you're irritated, etc, you end up with a sort of pass. if barack obama called someone a bimbo or whatever, you'd be all like "wait what kind of bizarre strategy is that? what is david plouffe thinking?' or it'd be 'he went off script! now he's revealed who he really is! kill!' but trump just does this all the time, so his supporters, and even the rest of us, get to the point of: yeah, that's just him. it helps that it's funny a lot. and then you expect him to do it again tomorrow: he'll find some specific little speech prohibition to violate. well, how pissed can you really be at lenny bruce or dave chapelle? and then in comparison with some borscht-belt joke-belter lenny might seem to be telling the truth instead of just muttering stock phrases. like i say, i think anyone could do this at any time, even though trump is particularly good at it. it was always only cowardice.
