Here’s a thread on one possible post-Parscale path. Let’s assume the new campaign manager, Bill Stepien, does a great job. I mean great. And Trump gets within the margin of error of Biden. What then? 1/
Well, long before it could get that close, Stepien will already have been showered with praise from reporters writing glowing, beat sweetening, profiles of the man assigned to “Save Trump.” Watch for these profiles to start tomorrow. Do we think Trump will like this stuff? 2/
That was a rhetorical q. Bannon was fired in part for ham-fistedly positioning himself as “Trump’s Brain.” The more successful Stepien is — minus some rallies/stunts he could convince Trump are the real drivers of his comeback — the more precarious Stepien’s position will be. 3/
And that’s if Stepien is super successful. Odds are he won’t be able to turn anything around because the campaign manager, like WH Chief it Staff, is a joke job under Trump. Trump’s the “talent” and Executive Producer who thinks he can write & direct. 4/
So Trump will likely flounder for a while longer, and that will make him even angrier as the Election looms. So he’ll blame Stepien. Who replaces him? Maybe Lewandowski because of his ability to get his whole head up Trump’s ass without the jaws of life or lubrication. But... 5/
I suspect it will be a family member because the election will have to tighten closer to Election Day, and Ivanka/Jared/Don Jr will claim the credit for the tightening even if they lose thanks to a “rigged” election (nod nod wink wink). 6/
That will help branding and messaging for a post Trump business plan which will include the classiest media business ever but also maintain the fiction that the Trumps are a rightful ruling dynasty unfairly cast into exile. 7/
The new Trump TV empire will be dedicated to the idea that the core family almost saved Trump from being stabbed in the back. And if you call in the next 15 minutes you can get an original reproduction on velvet of a Jon McNaughton portrait of Trump being stabbed in the back. 8/8
