Donald Trump is a wily survivor, and in front of our watchful eyes, he is slyly performing the most important acting gig of his life and sucking everybody into thinking he is just bullheadedly messing up his campaign incompetently. That is a magician’s skillful misdirection. Actually, he has already started executing the only exit strategy he can possibly live with. He is intentionally throwing the game so that Hilary will win, because he is setting it up to appear that the GOP let him down, sold him out and of course, that obviously Clinton cheated. That is the only possible way he can avoid being seen as a loser... at any and all cost. He didn’t really lose… the election was stolen by a rigged system through collusion by his enemies, the press and Crooked Hillary’s minions. He will successfully make his base believe wholeheartedly in this sham “illegal” election process, because it has now been conclusively proven that a solid 30+ % of the GOP will believe him and not give up on him, no matter what he says about anything or does to anybody.
People mistakenly think Trump hasn’t pivoted because he is still just playing to his base and not to the general electorate. Wrong… he already has pivoted, just in the opposite the direction everyone would expect. Don’t be fooled! He is making damn sure that his crazy base is absolutely as solid as possible, so that he can give them the strongest incentive to pick up the torches and pitchforks to riot. He would literally prefer civil war in the US, to the possibility that he might ever be considered a “loser.”
Donald Trump is a brilliant marketer and understands much more about swaying minds than most people comprehend. He loves the poorly educated. I believe that he originally entered this race with the simple intention of building up his personal brand… but not actually winning. He didn’t actually risk or need to spend anything, until he suddenly won the primary! I truly think that by now, he himself completely understands that winning the election would be the worst possible outcome for him and his legacy, because he knows he doesn’t really want, and can’t actually perform, the duties of the President of the US. He just wants to be able to say, “Hey, I could have done a great job, believe me. If I had won, America would be great, but -- it’s really sad — your enemies STOLE the government from all of you hard working people. So what are you going to do about it? Take it lying down? NO! Go take your country back for all of us patriots.” If it takes civil unrest to hide the fact that Trump lost the election because people actually voted with their conscience and their intelligence… ehhhhhh… that’s just the cost of doing business, preserving the value of the brand. Really. It’s true.