Exhausting. And for what purpose? https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265271275007721472

Does he think he can win an election with only the votes of the 40% of Americans who are implacably loyal to him? Doesn't he realize that there are few centrists — precisely those people without whose votes he cannot win — who aren't turned off by this kind of childishness?

Like all narcissists, though, it's all about his own needs and insecurities, and never about something greater than himself, which, if you're the president of a powerful country, is probably the worst character trait imaginable.

Republicans, if they want to win — and one would hope that's their goal — have to realize that while this type of rhetoric fires up the true believers, it kills support among other people who don't give a damn about the partisan binary, and just want to see good governance.