His social and political views until this year were not "nutty" conservative. They were somewhat progressive. On the other hand, if Trump had decided to mock and ruin the conservative right-wing--or the Republican Party--and if he thought that while doing so, he could invite millions to his watch his TV show, he'd be doing precisely what he's doing today. He's got nothing to lose.
For him, this presidential thing--if the Republican Tea-Party wing-nuts or its mainstream dolts go along with him--is a win-win situation. Why not do it? Take it to its absurd extreme, too, and say "fuck" when talking to Republican women in Vegas. That'll do it. That'll destroy the myth of conservative "Republicanism" and its "nobility" or "common sense" or its rhetorical and fiscal and foreign policy "level-headedness" and civic responsibility. No? Become a buffoon, a carnival barker, and take them all down with him. He's got nothing to lose.
Trump "the man" on the stump is an on-going self-satire of Trump the non-candidate. He's doing his damnedest to show everybody how outrageous he can be: That's why he has mocked his followers. That's why he has dragged his Trojan Horse deception of the Tea-Party "establishment" and the politically bankrupt Republican Party--and, yes, the Koch Brothers, and the Heritage Foundation, too--into the mire of a foul-mouthed vulgarity that is far greater and far more insane than anyone could have imagined.
Too extreme to be believed? Yes. Too great to satirize because what he says and does is so outrageous it is foolish and unbelievable? Yes. So ridiculous it is self-satire. Or self-parody. Who believes it? The 20% Gang. Republicans. The Fox non-News Network. He's dragging them all down with him. His Trojan Horse satirical assault on Birthers and Racists in the Republican Establishment of Certified Fools could not have unmasked and diminished them any faster than he has done.
His performance Art is quite superb. And to think that there are those who do not see his satire and who take him seriously! Who miss the point! Who miss the mockery in his self-styled performance Art. He has taken his performance Art of Trojan Horse satire into American presidential politics--and as a satirist, playing the arrogant buffoon, he has to ask himself, just how far he has to go before we see it, too.
He'd expect the Tea Party dolts to miss the fun, the satire. But . . . if Trump is playing with our minds, we ought to be able to see it. There ought to be a trail of evidence. Are we that blind? Are we that thick? Are we that slow to see satire at its best. Or at its highest? Or am I giving him credit as a satirist that he does not deserve?
Have we lost our sense of the absurd. Or do we want to believe that the Donald is as "arrogant" and as "egotistical" and as "dumb" as the character that he is at present playing?
His biggest difficulty has to be how does he get out of it? How does he bring "this" to an end? Actually, if NBC renews his contract for his show, The Celebrity Apprentice, that'll end the fun--and bring an end to the "campaign," the satire, the Performance Art, the Donald's Trojan Horse show.
Then, he'd have to come clean and tell us that none of it happened; that we all just thought it did. That should tell us everything: That it was one big joke.
On us? No. On them!