Just judging from the dramatis personae at Trump Theatre, it looks to me like this is mostly turning to a "smear Clinton" op, not a "win an election" op. Superficially looking over what the campaign is investing in, they've got a poor ground game, a super weak ad presence, and their fundraising just looks like a straight-up con. One of the Trump Team's exiting Latino surrogates, disappointed by Trump's recent AZ speech, basically said that from what he observed, they aren't trying to win this election. But what this team is set up pretty well to do, is bust kneecaps while Clinton crosses the finish line.
Look at the rogue's gallery--take sweet Kellyanne Conway for example. She doesn't seem like a vicious operator, but her spouse was a probable Drudge source back when. We can't pretend Roger Stone isn't "working" for or with Team Trump. Roger Ailes, whose cable network got great ratings from constant Clinton drama, is on the fringes. And, you know, Steve Bannon is Steve Bannon. They've even picked up Hillarycare basher Betsy McCaughey as an economic adviser. It's like the Trump Campaign is a Giant Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Bot, made up of smaller Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Bots.
So the playbook looks to be--lose ugly, gouge eyes and bloody noses, and make sure that if Clinton is going to take the White House, it's under a cloud of media scrutiny--and of course, our stupid ass media is happy to comply, and the for now GOP-controlled House understands what they are to do implicitly.
So once again, instead of actually doing a damn thing to "Make America Great", we've got a stable of dirty-tricking ops who think "winning" is beating down Democrats, instead of actually working on policies that affect people's lives. Is there any wonder so many people are apathetic? But knowing all these people have a certain history just makes me want to ruin them so we can skip to the part where government functions the way it's supposed to. It's just this goofy fantasy I sometimes have.
