A wave of panic is overtaking Trump and the GOP as their fortunes look increasingly grim

[Norbert]

President Donald Trump’s supporters hoped his debate with former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday night would give his campaign a boost. But many pundits have argued that while Trump’s unhinged ranting and raving during the debate probably didn’t hurt his support among true MAGA diehards, it didn’t win over many swing voters who were on the fence. And two Washington Post opinion columnists, Never Trump conservative Jennifer Rubin and liberal Greg Sargent, are emphasizing that Trump has only made things worse for himself this week and that a mood of desperation and panic is evident in the Republican Party.

Trump spent months on a “law and order” strategy to galvanize his core White supporters while frightening White suburbanites back to him. That failed.

Then, at the debate, Trump kept it up, falsely insisting Biden wouldn’t utter the words “law and order,” winking to right-wing extremists and white supremacists, and again rallying supporters to intimidate the opposition’s voters.

Yet Republicans believe this is failing for him, reports the New York Times. His racist backlash politics and threats of voter intimidation risk further alienating “women, moderates, suburban voters and people of color,” as the Times puts it. The people outside what he calls “our country.”

Republicans fear this approach is putting Trump and his party on track to a big loss. But as his Minnesota rally showed, he remains absolutely committed to winning only in this fashion. ...

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Yet White Muslim support for Trump is there. Hah??????

[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/muslims-least-likely-support-trump-but-rising-survey_n_5f751e59c5b6d698bb27d7c4|

[Phoenix61]

2. What part of bankruptcy king did they miss!

A business person may go bankrupt once but they’ll learn from that experience and do better the next time. He. Never. Learns. It feels like the first time every single time. It’s failure over and over and over because he is too stupid and willful to learn.

[Skittles]

3. OMG is the GOP just now realizing their Frankenstein is DESTRUCTIVE?

[BlueWavePsych]

4. They have only themselves to blame.

Hubris.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Their outlook is grim, and that's as it should be! He is a LOSER. n/t