What Donald Ought and Ought Not Do

WHAT Donald TRUMP SHOULD DO, conversely, 'long about now, is to keep fighting, to keep up the appearance and save face, while preparing for defeat, acceptance, and life beyond this campaign. Donald Trump is never one to miss an opportunity to make a splash, and he has a great opportunity to make a big one on his way out of Hillary Clinton's way. Trump has lost his presidential bid all by his lonesome, just by the way he's acted, the things he's said. Its now too late for him to recover from over a year of deplorable remarks by the basket. Even now, with all his talk about the election being rigged, he seems clueless as to how this makes him look, how it attracts no new supporters, how it turns people off, rather like all the sexual harassment stuff does. Donald seems to have some narcissistic kind of personality disorder in which he doesn't calculate the impact his actions have on other people, and how other people react to his actions, and, most of all, he doesn't seem to have any sense of his own limitations in controlling events, including the attitudes and reactions of others to him. Everything that he cannot control, and that does not behave the way he wants and expects, is "rigged", existing only because of some egregious flaw in the system or somebody else's perfidious plotting against him. Borderline paranoia, without doubt. Not what you would want in the Oval Office, believe me, as Trump would say. So, on election night, he should call Hillary and offer the most noble, affectionate, generous, sweetest concession and congratulation statement ever heard across the fruited plain, and thereby win the entire country over, except his followers. Trump's followers are likely to start a four year verbal and media terrorists campaign against President Hillary Clinton; Trump could become a true American hero by discouraging the viciousness, while advocating for his own policies, and those of his followers. The Donald could even call for national reconciliation, and for his followers to reach out to the rest of America, including those who voted for Hillary. At this point, The Trumpster could use a little improvement in his image. What would he do otherwise? Spend the next four years screaming that Hillary is not native born,and therefore not qualified to be president? Or maybe hire a whole battalion of private eyes to investigate her thoroughly, while he vacations with Putin on the Black Sea? Trump and his ilk do not have to vanish. Bernie Sanders and his people are not going anywhere. they'll be right there, trying to have a positive impact on the neo-Clinton administration. But will he be smart enough to do it?