...gosh I can't tell you how nice it would be if Donald Trump could go three weeks without detonating a bomb in his own face.
This intervention will not work, because Trump is immune from social pressure. He grew up a rich kid that routinely skated from trouble due to his wealth; he simply never had to learn, as most of us learned and internalized at an early age, that bad behavior, and upsetting conventional (even if dumb) social wisdom, has consequences and should be avoided.
On one hand, this gives Trump a limited immunity from social pressure and a greater freedom of political motion; most of our pencil-necked, cowardly politicians are so paralyzed by social fear they can't do much more than propose alternative schemes for achieving the liberal agenda.
On the other hand, the downside of having no internal restraints because you never had to pay for your bad decisions ever before in your life, is... well, you have a megalomaniac man-child like Trump.
The only person Trump seems to respect (and then some) is Ivanka, and I would say "Maybe Ivanka can talk a little restraint into him," but she's obviously already tried (Of course she has; she's not insane) and she's already failed.
So this cake is baked.
Ed Morrisey at Hot Air reports that Gingrich has already made his concerns public this morning with an interview with Maria Bartolo at Fox Business:
Donald Trump’s behavior over the last week has been “very self-destructive” to his campaign, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday, comparing the Republican nominee to a Hall of Fame quarterback who is in the midst of an interception-throwing slump.
“Trump is still behaving like as though it was the primaries and there were 17 candidates. He has not made the transition to being the potential president of the United States, which is a much tougher league,” Gingrich said in an interview with Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria.” “People are going to watch you every single day. They’re going to take everything they can out of context, and he is not yet performing at the level that you need to.” …
...But with 97 days to go until Election Day, Gingrich pointed to “two huge advantages” in Trump’s favor: “One is the country really wants change, and the other is Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt and dishonest candidate we’ve ever had for president.”
Morrisey believes
The point about the shift from primary thinking to playing in the general-election leagues is most pertinent. The seat-of-your-pants strategy worked for Trump in large part because the other 16 candidates spent most of their time trying to beat the rest to the Not-Trump position. That allowed Trump to manipulate the media while the other Republicans dug their own graves. By the time that Ted Cruz won the Not-Trump position to himself, it was far too late, and Trump didn’t pay any price for his erratic style.
...Who could have predicted that the media would turn on its previous darling after he won the Republican nomination? John McCain and Mitt Romney, you can lower your hands now.
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