Trump's Winning, Cynical Plan

By artappraiser on Mon, 06/25/2018 - 12:49pm |

By Jim van Der Hei & Mike Allen @ Axios.com, June 25, found quoted & recommended by

“The more President Trump does, says and tweets outrageous things, the more his critics go bananas and the better he does in the polls.”https://t.co/U8DitlrK34
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 25, 2018

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https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-political-polarization-norms-polling-reelection-62630b4f-6924-4140-9da8-72ea2300e560.html

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Don’t Blame Trump’s Advisers for Trump

The tendency to look for a puppet master behind Trump’s actions is misguided.

By Rosie Gray @ TheAtlantic.com, JUN 22, 2018

[....] the reality has always been that the director of the Trump Show is Trump, and that there are some issues on which he does have real beliefs. Immigration is not the only issue on which Trump sets the terms despite advisers who might not agree. Despite National-Security Adviser John Bolton’s hawkishness on North Korea, Trump pushed ahead with his summit with Kim Jong Un earlier this month and pursuit of a denuclearization agreement. Former White House adviser Gary Cohn famously left the administration over disagreements with Trump’s tariffs. In the end, Trump does what he wants to do.

The family-separation crisis offers an instructive example [.....]

follows with more sophisticated analysis on this than the usual....

by artappraiser on Mon, 06/25/2018 - 12:59pm

is flip flopping every day here there and everywhere on the whole immigration thing, has even the jaded Maggie Haberman "lol":

Lol https://t.co/q2LFtX9lNS
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 25, 2018

Says to me he is at a loss how to play it, has not his usual gut instinct on how to play it and the TV coverage he watches is just confusing him more? As the article above notes, which I agree with, immigration is actually one of the few things he has strong feelings about, is not just one of his cynical culture wars toys that he plays with to get "ratings."

by artappraiser on Mon, 06/25/2018 - 3:23pm

Trump has a relatively narrow path to victory. That path is via his supporters who will not change. Defeating Trump requires energizing the Democratic base via outreach. It also involves outreach to Independents.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 06/25/2018 - 2:44pm

Trump's Winning, Cynical Plan

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