This is totally going to happen, www.politico.com/… but it will be orchestrated to give The Donald what he really, really wants — attention on him, drama, and money.
The man who is in the WWE hall of fame, www.wwe.com/…, won’t be able to resist the fun of staging the most outrageous event possible at Cleveland. Also, he knows he can’t win against Hillary, for a billion reasons he will never win the election. So, how can he save face, while he’s losing, and at the same time retain the ability to pat himself on the back, later, for his cleverness?
Clearly, he needs to make some money off of all the attention he’s gotten so far. If that money takes the form of go-away money, from the Republican party, Trump won’t care, as long as he can declare himself the winner (of something), and keep whatever is left of his cred to right-wingers. Oh yeah, and it has to get high ratings, that’s important.
Fortunately, Donald has the WWE experience, he knows all about heroes who transform into heels, heels who transform into heroes, and he has experience being at the center of the drama. I’m expecting that the part of the story that is important to the presidential election — the mechanics of totally not bribing Trump with money, and getting his agreement to exit the race, &etc — will not be televised. But we will see the part that’s important to Donald, some kind of totally scripted but staged to be spontaneous nonsense straight out of WWE, where Donald hands over the mantle, and we end up with some kind of replacement candidate.
How this change does or doesn’t propagate to state ballots, &etc, I’m sure isn’t Donald’s concern, but a competent politician — i.e., somebody with actual managerial skills, unlike Trump — could do something. That something, and the replacement somebody, will never beat Hillary in the fall, as long as we all do what we need to do to support good candidates up and down the ballot.
It’s been very entertaining to watch the Trump campaign’s dumpster fire burn, and next month in July it will all go up at once….
