The only way to destroy Trump is to destroy the media, and that ain't gonna happen any time soon.
Or he loses the election, stops being interesting and goes back to reality TV. If he loses once, no one is going to give a shit about him the second time.
I don't think Trump
can really lose at this point. He's already been "winning" enough to turn every subsequent loss into a legitimate anti-Trump conspiracy in the minds of his supporters. Just like the Iowa caucuses, remember?
I mean, if the GOP nomination goes to Not-Trump because of a brokered convention, that is
definitely a Trump-win because "CUCKSERVATIVES STOLE NOMINATION TRUMP 4EVA NEVA 4GET" (...and RIP GOP as a hilarious (un)intentional after-effect).
If Trump loses the general election to Hillary, that's definitely a "DIMMYCRATE ELITE STOLE PRESIDENCY TRUMP 4EVA NEVA 4GET" situation (...and say hello to American politics with
more than two parties).
It's a 10/10 win/win for Trump in any case. Very well played,
even for a professional reality TV celeb with five decades of experience in playing the media.EDIT:
Scott has written a funny/depressing review of Trump's magnum opus.But there’s still something alien about Trump here, even moreso than with the populist demagogue of the campaign trail. Trump the demagogue is attacked as anti-intellectual. I get anti-intellectualism because – like all isms – it’s an intellectual idea, and I tend to think in those terms. But Trump of the book is more a-intellectual, in the same way some people are amoral or asexual. The world is taken as a given. It contains deals. Some people make the deals well, and they are winners. Other people make the deals poorly, and they are losers. Trump does not need more than this. There will be no civilization of philosopher-Trumps asking where the first deal came from, or whether a deal is a deal only by virtue of its participation in some primordial deal beyond material existence. Trump’s world is so narrow it’s hard to fit your head inside it, so narrow that on contact with any wider world it seems strange and attenuated, a broken record of deals and connections and hirings expanding to fill the space available.
On the other hand, he made a billion dollars and will probably win the GOP nomination. So there’s that.