Hillary Clinton has the best ally any candidate could ask for going into the second debate: Donald J. Trump. She couldn’t have a better partner helping her to victory in the October 9 debate and assuring that she’ll be the next occupant of the Oval Office.
Here’s why: Trump continues to live in a bubble, along with hundreds of thousands of his hardcore supporters. He actually believes that he won the first debate (no kidding!) and his followers are right there with him, living in an alt universe known as La-La Land.
This break with reality (which is exacerbated by the large crowds that still show up at his rallies even after the recent debate debacle) is leading him to believe nothing is wrong, so why should he do anything about sharpening his debating skills? If he did so well (in his own demented mind) why should he change his M.O.? Big, big mistake.
Now, some would contend that anyone so out of touch with reality isn’t qualified to even be nominated for the highest office in the land, let alone run for the presidency. But the Republican establishment evidently knows better than the American electorate. Those weak sisters on the right put him in position — to embarrass the hell out of all of them.
Trump and his minions are doing a deranged circle jerk. They show up and fill a 15,000 seat venue — while screaming, hollering and castigating anyone who doesn’t think, look and live just like them (except for some confused Negroes like Don King) — and, dismissing legitimate polls as left-wing propaganda, swear they are winning. And of course when the vote totals come in on election night they will swear they were robbed, that the system was rigged. And naturally Trump will be leading the wacky choir.
Demagogues, when they’re exposed for the charlatans they are by being rejected by the electorate, always find a way to shift the blame, just like Trump did after the first debate when he claimed his microphone wasn’t working properly. If he was as sharp as he claims to be he would have stopped mid-sentence and demanded that the problem be fixed. Why didn’t he?
The truth is, there was no mic problem. But Trump followers will go to their graves claiming there was one, and that’s how the election was stolen from their candidate. But these are the same jerks that believe Obama was born in Kenya, that the moon landing was staged somewhere in the Arizona desert, and that the Civil War was an act of northern aggression. There’s no way that logic and reason is going to work on folks who have the average reading comprehension levels of fourth graders.
And when Trump loses they’ll begin making noises about secession from the Union, under force of arms if necessary. What they are too dense to understand is this: Virtually every other right-wing nut espousing violence happens to be a federal agent. Just ask Cliven Bundy and his followers.
Hillary is going to have Trump wearing his ass for a hat in the next debate, and by the third one, it’s going to be hard for audience members to restrain themselves from laughing out loud at the biggest buffoon to ever attempt to run for the presidency.
From Cool Cleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available again in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author by visiting http://NeighborhoodSolutionsInc.com