http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2016/08/donald-trump-finally-imploding
<header class="large-9 columns article-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 4.75em 4em 4em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 472.5px; float: right; z-index: 9; position: relative; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[h=1]Donald Trump finally imploding[/h]It is looking like this might finally be the end for the Republican party’s ill-fated Trump experiment.
</header><aside class="large-3 columns article-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 4em 1em 3em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 157.5px; float: left; text-align: center; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">BYNICKY WOOLF
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<section class="large-9 columns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 2em 4em 3em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 472.5px; float: right; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">I laughed last June, when that orange ignoramus, with his ridiculous hair and impossible pomposity, descended the escalator into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York to the tune of Neil Young’s “Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World”.
We all did, didn't we? It was impossible not to. He radiated smugness and pomposity with an intensity that would break a Geiger counter. He was preposterous. But there he stood, announcing his candidacy for president and then immediately turning to call all Mexican immigrants “rapists”.
Time and again, journalists and analysts expressed with great certainty that one cretinous gaffe or another would finally put Donald Trump’s rickety, ridiculous, idiosyncratic campaign into a tailspin. He lied, and lied, and lied. His contempt for the truth, and for the constitution of the United States, was breathtaking – and matched only by his wilful ignorance of both.
This was a bubble and, received wisdom held in the summer of 2015, it would burst soon enough.
But our laughter was premature. For more than a year, to the disbelief, especially, of America’s media and political elites, Trump defied all the laws of political gravity. Every insane utterance seemed to boost, rather than hinder him. Written off by everyone as a joke, the orange juggernaut blundered on to win handily in the primaries.
This week, that longed-for tailspin seems to have finally arrived. Having goaded the news cycle, bare-facedly telling lie after madcap lie, Trump’s quittance is, maybe, finally here.
His behaviour recently fits the theory that Trump himself is engaging in self-sabotage, terrified by the prospect that his Quixotic tilt at the presidential windmill might end up, against all reason, succeeding. If this is the case, he's doing a bang-up job.
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<header class="large-9 columns article-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 4.75em 4em 4em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 472.5px; float: right; z-index: 9; position: relative; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[h=1]Donald Trump finally imploding[/h]It is looking like this might finally be the end for the Republican party’s ill-fated Trump experiment.
</header><aside class="large-3 columns article-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 4em 1em 3em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 157.5px; float: left; text-align: center; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">BYNICKY WOOLF
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<section class="large-9 columns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 2em 4em 3em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 472.5px; float: right; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">I laughed last June, when that orange ignoramus, with his ridiculous hair and impossible pomposity, descended the escalator into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York to the tune of Neil Young’s “Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World”.
We all did, didn't we? It was impossible not to. He radiated smugness and pomposity with an intensity that would break a Geiger counter. He was preposterous. But there he stood, announcing his candidacy for president and then immediately turning to call all Mexican immigrants “rapists”.
Time and again, journalists and analysts expressed with great certainty that one cretinous gaffe or another would finally put Donald Trump’s rickety, ridiculous, idiosyncratic campaign into a tailspin. He lied, and lied, and lied. His contempt for the truth, and for the constitution of the United States, was breathtaking – and matched only by his wilful ignorance of both.
This was a bubble and, received wisdom held in the summer of 2015, it would burst soon enough.
But our laughter was premature. For more than a year, to the disbelief, especially, of America’s media and political elites, Trump defied all the laws of political gravity. Every insane utterance seemed to boost, rather than hinder him. Written off by everyone as a joke, the orange juggernaut blundered on to win handily in the primaries.
This week, that longed-for tailspin seems to have finally arrived. Having goaded the news cycle, bare-facedly telling lie after madcap lie, Trump’s quittance is, maybe, finally here.
His behaviour recently fits the theory that Trump himself is engaging in self-sabotage, terrified by the prospect that his Quixotic tilt at the presidential windmill might end up, against all reason, succeeding. If this is the case, he's doing a bang-up job.
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