The way things are going, it looks like @realDonaldTrump (I'd hate to see the unreal one) is headed for a catastrophic, historic and ridiculing defeat. Don’t buy any of the absurd spin coming from Jeffrey Lord or the rest of the “Trumplicans.”
There’s no miracle on the horizon. No Ronald Reagan 1980's last minute comeback.
Trump is down by 10–20% or more, depending on which surveys you believe.
Even Fox News, which polls on a curve, bit the right side of its lip and agreed that things look bad. Real bad. Like Armageddon bad.
Trump is finished. Done. Baked. Cooked.
Putting it in words many of his supporters will understand: “There ain’t gunna be no comeback.”
Except…there is one last strategy, a last resort, that could turn it all around. And put Donald back on his feet. Ready for it Paul Manafort?
Trump announces he’s entering rehab.
He blames all of his bizarre, erratic and racist behavior on an addiction of some sort. Any addiction will work. Painkillers. Alcohol. Coffee. Devil Dogs. Twitter.
That’s all he needs to do. He just has to “come clean.”
Americans loves that stuff. They are willing to forgive almost anyone for anything. Tiger Woods. Charlie Sheen. Demi Lovato. Heck, even Bill Clinton. Just fess up to some sad disorder (which is a disease, mind you), spend some time in rehab “doing the work,” and a few weeks after you’re released, sit down for an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters.
She’d totally come out of retirement for it. Even at 86.
Trump could talk all about his “problem,” how he’s overcome it, and then apologize for the entire thing. He’d be a new man.
Admittedly, it might be a little non-traditional for a major party Presidential nominee to enter rehab right in the middle of the campaign. But heck, this is America, where you get to totally screw up one day and be a national hero the next.
Besides, what has he got to lose? He’s already lost.
So anything at this point represents an uptick.
By my calculations, he’d enjoy an eight percent “rehab bump.” Which might just put him back in the race.
If he hurries up and does it now, he’d get out in time for the first debate.
(Note to readers: Add me to the long list of reasonable Americans who counted Trump out too soon.)
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