Rump's Id Is Running Things

A problem with having an unhinged, bigoted egomaniac as your Party's presumed nominee is that he will ignore advice that he didn't hear from voices in his head. Such is the case, happily, with neo-fascist demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump. Rethuglican elected officials are seeing Rump's poll numbers in decline after several very bad weeks, where he dove in the sewer to attack a sitting Federal judge of Mexican ancestry handling he Trump "University" scam case, and made the mass killing at an Orlando gay nightclub a narcissistic, "I told you so" moment. The RNC and elected officials have been desperate for Rump to tone his demagoguery down. They're also noticing that Rump lacks any resemblance of a national campaign organization, capable of coordinating them them or State party organizations, so they're trying to rig one for him despite Rump's resistance to any control over him. The problem is that the RNC is not geared toward running a Presidential campaign, and never has been.

They've seen what we have: Rump prefers unscripted tirades to prepared speeches -- using a TelePrompter -- and attacking on Twitter rather than preparing any mature policy proposals (which he's clearly incapable of anyway).  He'll proceed with his "campaign" like he did during the primaries: feeding off of rallies with angry, violent supporters while making outrageous, false statements. He won't "pivot" to a "Presidential" tone for the general election, because he doesn't think he needs to change -- everyone around him does. Let's hope he continues to listen to those voices in his head all the way up to election day.

BONUS: He's toxic to an increasing number of Republican and conservative figures, not just the Bushes and Willard "Mittens" Romney. It's going to get worse for him, just watch.