Discussing the prospects for Donald Trump’s election in November, Charles Krauthammer said that the only winning argument left for Democrats is that Trump is unfit for the office, and it may work because he refuses to pivot to being presidential or unifying.
Krauthammer's Take: Trump's 'Mistakes' Are a Reflection of Who He IsI’m not sure that you can call these mistakes, I think these are a reflection of who he is. Everybody expected the pivot to being presidential, to being conciliatory, to bringing the party together, and it never comes. People say “Mistake after mistake”—at some point you have to ask if he is capable of conducting himself in any other way.
I think you are right, Mercedes, that the basic structure of this campaign is simple. With any other candidate on the Republican side, this thing would be over given the eight years of record, the failures abroad, the things that Pence raised about what’s happening in the middle east, the news we got on the economy last week—the weakest recovery since 1949. The list is very long.
The question Democrats have to ask, the only way that they can win, is to argue for the unfitness of the opponent for office, because if he crosses the threshold for fitness, he wins.