PART 3: WHY DONALD TRUMP CAN’T, AND WON’T WIN IN 2016

By Dennis Matanda, Ryan Elcock
& Emmanuel Musaazi | The Habari Network

At some point during his first debate against Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump made the decision to ignore each and everything his highly-paid and highly-skilled consultants told him before he stepped onto the biggest stage of his life. Credible reporters say their sources within the Trump Camp intimated that The Principal had been forewarned against letting Clinton get under his skin. And at the end of the day, everyone in the know knew that lurking beneath that infamous thin skin was a narcissistic being no one wanted to see anymore. That being had dominated the Republican primaries – had vanquished a bevy of Republican challengers, and now had the American presidency well within his grasp. But his competition this time was Hillary Clinton – this was the General Election – and the being under Trump’s thin skin was not how one put their best foot forward!

During this first historical debate against the first woman ever nominated for U.S. president by a major party – in a show watched by an average 84 million Americans and countless others across the world – Trump started off strong. He was as credible as a Trump could be; he was respectful and quite charming. When it came to discussing things, he was scripted and did not do what he did during the primary. And like everyone seems to agree, he was doing well up until 25 minutes into the debate. With another hour left, it suddenly became painfully obvious that he was getting a little restless. Suddenly, he was interjecting and inserting himself into Clinton’s allotted time. Hillary said something, and the Being Beneath Donald Trump’s skin came out.

In simple terms, at the end of the day, a CNN/ORC International poll showed that the vast majority of those that watched the debate gave Clinton a victory – 62% to 27%. Clinton was not even touched by the email scandal that has plagued the better part of her campaign. Trump should have brought up the death of America’s diplomats and military personnel in Benghazi – but then if Hillary’s debate dexterity with the Trump Taxes is anything to go by, there’s a chance that she’d have cleaned his clock with the fastidiousness she zealously displayed on that stage.

So, why is Donald Trump’s personality/character – or ‘winning’ temperament – the kind that won’t and cannot win the 2016 General Election? Well – this is actually a simple one. The very thing that allowed him to win in the Republican Primary is the very same thing that’s going to assure his blistering loss to Clinton. Without pretending to be shrinks, there’s no doubt that Trump is, at his core, a wholesomely confident man. But then that is not the word to define a being that does not understand the essence of empathy. When the rest of us know for a fact that we have wronged another, we take a step back, recalculate and return with a bridge of sorts. Not Donald Trump. He doubles down on everything. This is a man who, basically, suggested that Obama was an illegitimate president. Trump claimed that Obama had been born outside the United States, and unless a long-form birth certificate emerged, he was going to prosecute the matter to its death. And once Obama presented the birth certificate in 2011, ordinary people would have dropped the subject. Trump, again, remains unique here. He was able to draw out the racist in him – and soon, the birther thing was in play.

To be Continued in Part IV