Let's face it, Trump's pathetic primal screaming about rigged elections, media collusion, violent uprisings, international conspiracies, and murky geopolitical maneuvering involving Clinton and a shady (you guessed it) Mexican shot-caller named "Carlos Slim " is just a full-on cathartic outpouring of preemptive sour grapes. It's the sound produced by a desperate, overwrought and crestfallen little boy wandering around within an alleged 6'4 frame who, despite superior powers of self-delusion, knows damn well he's headed for a loss. Ultimately, such emotional shortcomings -- the disproportionate responses to any degree of perceived disloyalty; the amoral forays into outright lying; the slippery pivots into straight-up fantasy; the noxious inability to accept defeat -- that become the core enablers of his tremendous capacity for self-denials of the obvious; such as his own voice on tape. Trump literally cannot handle the truth. The vividly exotic blend of dangerously-entertaining crazy that he exudes -- compelling enough to garner Trump over $2 billion in free media -- may wind up defining a whole new category of character disorder -- "Trumped-Up Personality Syndrome."
It's become a dangerous a state of affairs that now has him channeling Jim Jones of the People's Temple to the GOP's lunatic fringe to essentially form a cult of political kamikazes to be unleashed against his own party and anyone in America who voted against him. And true to his nature, he will let loose his wrath in a manner that is both vindicating (in his mind) and vindictive (in execution). Clearly, the man whose life was once described by the New Yorker magazine's Mark Singer as "an existence unmolested by the rumblings of a soul" has become hands down, without a doubt, America's Sorest Loser.
After the loss
Yet, for Trump, there remains a significant upside in losing the presidency, which might ultimately make him a winner. It's probably not a stretch to presume that over the next decade, Trump, the self-proclaimed "King of Debt," could wind up pulling in more money overall from ventures related to his presidential run than might otherwise be possible through traditional avenues of business. For Trump, post-2016, may indeed bring about a "great, beautiful wall" -- of sorts. However, as always, Trump's dream project will be funded with "other people's money" -- that of his American supporters. Trump can exploit his charisma among the "deplorables" that he began yoking in during his reign as "King of the Birthers" to victim-hustle off his claim of having lost a rigged election, and re-brand himself as the quintessential "outsider politician." He would use that status to exploit millions of dollars from the pockets of the most devoted of them.
To be blunt, regarding issues of emotional stability, insight, thoughtfulness, rationality and cognizant critical thinking, there little that differentiates the lack of those attributes from Trump himself and the seemingly anti-intellectual, hyper-emotional bent displayed by his most agitated supporters. That's probably what explains what makes Trump so keen on spotting a "mark" -- crazy recognizes crazy.
It's also reflects the vast expanse of intellect separating Trump from Hillary Clinton and most of her supporters. And, considering the divisive rhetoric heard from him since day one of his campaign, it's an expanse that Trump probably sees no reason to bridge. Why should he? Divisiveness has been Trump's big "money shot" since day one of his campaign. And right now, even as darkness grows nearer on the prospects of a November victory, the die is being cast for the transformation of his 2016 failure into a formidable and financially-profitable future political presence (think Sarah Palin post-2008).
For Trump, success in pulling off this re-branding effort-- from hot-shot, big city, pseudo-pimp businessman to populist political outsider to the American proletariat -- puts him in a position to accrue further influence over political matters, and pull in a whole lot of money in the process over the next decade or more. It's a far safer bet for him than any odds for success he might have had in continuing to concoct cockamamie "get-rich-quick" business schemes like Trump University, and bogus charity hustles like the Trump Foundation.
It seems like a can't-lose proposition when one accounts for the earnest lack of intellectual curiosity and susceptibility to showbiz-like hyperbole among the kind of voters who apparently find nothing off-putting about supporting a presidential candidate whose plan to make America great again seems to be, as comedienne Samantha Bee put it: "Take a 'Tic-Tac' and grab 'em by the p*ssy."
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