How Donald Trump Lost His Mojo Flailing on race and immigration - by Matt Taibbi

How Donald Trump Lost His Mojo
Flailing on race and immigration, his campaign in chaos, the candidate who made a brilliant farce of the election is now finding the joke is on him


Now he's trying to win, and he's in free-fall. Polls show he will lose to one of the most unpopular Democratic nominees ever. And Trump, whose very name is supposed to be synonymous with hedonism and hoggish excess, looks in person like a picture of misery.

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He also looks old. It's an impression enhanced by the terrible echoing acoustics in the barn, which make him sound like a man calling out Bingo numbers at a retirement home.

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As a salacious high-velocity burn on a corrupted campaign process, he was initially a brilliant, if repulsive, success. He charged through the primary season like a pig on strychnine and won the nomination not because of who he was, but what he wasn't: a politician.


Therefore, uniquely perhaps in the history of presidential candidates, Trump's success hinged on his ability to stay true to himself. The promise of his campaign was Trump the man, all day, every day. If his voters wanted a politician, or even a non-politician who thought before he spoke, they'd have chosen one. Who could have foreseen we'd end up with the one thing more ridiculous than Donald Trump running for president: Donald Trump running for president and trying to be smart about it.

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