Trump Trying 'Etch-a-Sketch 2.0' Campaign Strategy
It's Etch-a-Sketch time, folks! We can all remember how that worked out for Mitt Romney in 2012, right? Cynical, cynical Republican strategists have been using this strategy for decades to thread the needle between their insane base primary voters and the general electorate.
This time, the brain behind the bullsh*t is Donald Trump's newly-hired brain, Paul Manafort. To his credit, Manafort didn't play around with niceties. He just came right out to Republican bigwigs at the RNC meeting and gave them the straight lie. It goes like this: Donald Trump is just acting the part to win the primary, and then he'll be his real self. (You can listen here)
The Republican Party is in the process of being played. They know it. The people in on the scam know it. The media know it. Now it's going to be time where everybody pretends that nobody understands what's really going on. If the con works, it becomes the truth. If enough people see Jesus in the bark of an oak tree, then he's really there.