How Trump's Insular Campaign is a Canary in a Coal Mine

The insular nature of Drumph's operation is to me one of the most potentially frightening aspects of a Drumph presidency. Corey Loser-dowski's behavior on the Donald Drumph Medicine Show Tour, and the lack of accountability he has faced for his behavior, is a canary in the coal mine.
The media seems to have a pathological inability to hold Drumph to the same standards to which they hold the average GOP candidate, which is about three notches of accountability behind Clinton and ten behind Sanders.

You can see how Drumph is able to maintain ridiculous fictions ("That wasn't my guy who grabbed her! It can't be proven!", "the protesters are wildly swinging their arms!", "real unemployment is up to 42%.")

The media is helpless as they serve up uninterrupted Drumph rallies to serve their corporate ratings masters. Meanwhile, a young reporter is out of a job and the assault upon her is a non story. Fact checking is a joke-what facts? We have press conferences where we can't hear the question. But we see how Drumph responds to any policy question with anger, hostility, aggression, dismissal, and finally disregard. See how he treated some hapless guy named Jeremy during one of his victory press conferences. Only because Larry O'Donnel mentioned it did we learn that Drumph reacted so poorly because the poor small-fingered vulgarian got a question on trade. HOW DARE HE! No other candidate has ever gotten such a free pass during a campaign.

If elected, Drumph will NEVER enter a situation where he may be criticized. All questions will be pre-screened. "free-speech zones" will be 5 miles away from the event, behind barbed wire. Staged conflagrations will be used to justify more and more of a bubble, until the only dissent will be Dem backbenchers screaming out during the State of the Union, a la "You Lie!." Drumph will scream from the podium "Get em outta here!", and they will spend at least 3 nights in jail, while they are temporarily and ridiculously declared a "security risk" to justify this detention deterrent.

Democrats will scream and howl, the GOP will quietly go along in shame as they gobble up every pet favor Drumph throws at them in exchange for their fealty.

THIS IS HOW WE GO FURTHER ON DOWN THE ROAD OF DESTRUCTION - Thanks Viacom, Comcast, Disney, TimeWarner, and of course Fox. May Karma find a way to bring you to justice. Because, well, there is no "controlling authority"-and if there is one, it might be Trump- yikes.

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PastorAgnostic's picture

Have a spinal column that resembles a bowl of over-cooked spaghetti, after a long dip in a steam bath.

What I find both amusing and scary is how the GOP totally misread the monstrous TeaBuggered ogre they concocted, (for their own temporary use) and how the current (rahm-Hillary-Obama) democratic leadershit has done the same. Because not one liberal I know likes how the D party is (ahem) working.

This means that trump wins.

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I fear you are correct sir. My only hope is that Trump's odiousness is enough to drive the Obama coalition to the polls - I think we can at least get a decent Supreme Court, if we are lucky. And that's all we get. If we are lucky.

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GradySeasons
"The nightlife ain't no good life, but it's my life."

Trump doesn't have any facts, so the fact-checkers are out of luck!

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"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."