re: #39 ericblair

There’s also the major difference between rally goers and the electorate. A huge rally, even a huge tour of rallies, is a drop in the bucket of voters that you need to get to win an election. And if the rally goers are just patting each other on the backs for being such superior individuals instead of reaching out to other voters to get them on board, it’s a total waste of time and resources.

And as the Trump mess becomes less like an actual campaign and even more like a cult, it’s also increasingly plausible that a fair number of the (barely) tens of thousands who do show up for each of his freak show performances are the same people traveling around and getting their hate fix over and over again.

And that, in turn, self-selects for the kind of especially creepy cultists who give Jordan Klepper such good material every time the Daily Show sends him out to troll the waiting line. These are, by definition, not the kind of supporters who can go out and widen the base of support among the larger non-batshit community.

Good for TFG’s ego. Not so good for actually winning an election, thankfully.