I agree with your analysis but not your conclusion. You are right that Trump is not a Republican, or even a traditional, institutional conservative. They will hate him, and he hates them. But all of this is I think why he will be motivated to do something like Trump TV. If he loses his election (one of the few Republicans who probably could have managed to do it, at least as easily as it appears he will) and costs the GOP the Senate, he will play no elder statesman role in the Republican Party, and I don't see him going back to his reality show on NBC. His hotel brand is badly damaged.
He never was a majority figure even with the Republican Party - he is the king of leverage, and in politics, he managed to leverage enthusiastic support from about a third of the Republican Party into first a plurality than a majority to get the nomination. I think he will want to create a space in which he can hear the applause and get the adulation that he is increasingly not going to be able to find anywhere else. An internet space for the angry 15% to 25% of the country, where ugly and vile attacks can be spoken as inconvenient politically incorrect truths would be just what would sooth his damaged soul. The fact that this would be just about the worst thing that could happen to the Republican Party would seem to be the cherry on top for him. On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm going to continue to disagree. Trump is not a member of the > conservative movement. He's not on the same page as the writers of the > Weekly Standard and National Review and he has no respect for the leaders > of the movement or their institutions. What he knows about the issues he > knows from talk radio and FNC pundits. To a narcissist failure comes from > the betrayal of those around him. Trump will come out of this election with > a deep grudge against the Republican Party for not giving him the > full-throated endorsement he needed to bring him a victory. He will look at > other donor groups like executives from financial services and insurance > who did not donate to his campaign and he will hold a grudge against them > as well. > > He also knows he is losing his metaphorical megaphone as well. The cable > news channels are not going to ask his opinions on topics of the day when > there are active office holders and pundits out there. He is not going to > hold rallies for tens of thousands of people any more. They backed a loser > and will move on to find the next charismatic leader. And he has become > toxic to anybody who is not one of his followers. > > When the election is over and the hoopla has died down, Trump is going to > have to deal with the upcoming Trump University trial, the misuse of funds > from his foundation, the accusations of predatory sexual behavior, etc. His > brand and properties will probably take a huge hit from the backlash. I > don't see him putting in the effort to get a shoestring online media > operation off the ground. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
