"... [T]here are two ways to read the state of play with the Trump campaign. One is that it is a disorganized mess that has struggled with fundraising and has mismanaged the one Republican organization most set up to help it win. Not only that, it has repeated past moves of driving out highly qualified and competent employees in favor of incompetent nuts. And sources are leaking to reporters both anonymously and by name to sound the alarm.
"The other way to read it is that the Trump campaign thinks it doesn’t need to participate in the mundane slog of day-to-day campaigns. For starters, the campaign thinks Donald Trump is some sort of secret weapon because they have paid zero attention to every election beginning with 2018. Had they paid attention, they might have noticed that the more Trump is front and center, the more of a drag he is on Republican candidates.
"But, more worrisomely if you are attached to quaint traditions like 'democracy,' the campaign isn’t bothering with campaign infrastructure
because it is planning on trying to steal the elections at the ballot
box, and then after Election Day, when its army of lawyers will descend
on the nation’s courts with frivolous lawsuits in a more organized
replay of 2020. And it is confident of success this time around." -- Gary Legum, in Wonkette, concluding a take on a Washington Post story that looked at the Malignant Loser's lack of campaign infrastructure (and also allowed a lot of demonstrably false assertions to go unchallenged). The Malignant Loser and the grifting remoras attached to him doubtless believe what Legum outlines in his final paragraph above -- that they will seize power next time around and end American democracy. Once again, forewarned is forearmed.
