Does he really want to be reelected? He doesn’t act like it.
I think he is bored and misses he former predilections. Sleeping around, kinky sex, unlimited drugs, adulation without criticism, making money.
Rather than court the mushy middle, Trump is campaigning to and for his radical, racist base.
At his so-called rallies he primps and struts around the stage soaking up the cheers of the peasants like a Dollar Store Mussolini. It’s not new votes he is seeking but their undying devotion.
For ninety-minutes he gets to spew his hate and mockery, spread lies, and falsely claim accomplishments that are not his own. He needs to denigrate others so he can feel big. Like a man.
Meanwhile his campaign is running out of money. He steps on his own message daily. He holds no promises for the future just his unending taunts. He is the losers, loser. It is what they love about him.
Yet the election will be close. Our country is made up of over 40% losers who live in their own minds with radical theories spread by master manipulators who seek to enslave them for their own ends.
Trump gives these sad, angry people a sense of belonging, a sense of self. They can never give that up.
In the end, he, as his cult followers will lose. But neither will go quietly into the night. He, they, and their anger and hate will be with us for the rest of time. As it always has been…