Daniel McCarthy aka Tory Anarchist tweets:
* Almost seems Trump has deliberate strategy to keep the spotlight on himself, not his opponent, good light or bad.
* If that’s his strategy, it relies on media playing along: grasping a distraction from Hillary’s woes. Trump offers easy alternative target.
* As a strategy, preempting your opponent’s bad news cycle w/ bad news of your own seems nuts, unless you think attention is all that counts.
* That said, Trump used his gaffes to good effect in the primaries. He sucked all media oxygen away from rivals—made them background figures.
* Trump won the primaries this way: he kept the limelight 100% of the time by being as outrageous as necessary. He became whole focus of race.
* The more outrageous & surreal the Trump-focused race became, the more ridiculous his opponents looked. He thrived in the climate he created.
* Trump’s opponents were mostly the usual stuffed shirts & grifters pretending to be serious men. They needed the pretense. Trump blew it away.
* Now there’s Hillary Clinton. Sober stateswoman? Look at her polices—Iraq, Libya, banks—look at abusing her State Dept communications. C’mon.
* Trump shattered the myth of GOP respectability with his own complete lack of respectability. Can that work against Hillary? Fun to find out.
* President Trump would have the press, the Democrats (back in civil libertarian disguise) & much of his own party against him. Strong checks.
* President Clinton will have a sycophantic party, servile press, opposition at civil war with itself. Illusion of unity hiding deep cracks.
