Perhaps but it isn’t like he didn’t pick a lot of these fights. He constantly delegitimized them, do you think they wouldn’t strike back and pour as much mud as they could on him?

I actually liked a good deal of his policies and some I found ridiculous and others awful.

But how you speak matters. He set himself up to be mocked and ridiculed. He picked fights as much or more as they came to him.

I get it - he was “playing to his base”. But I don’t think he was. In fact I think it got to a point his base controlled him. He just couldn’t help being repulsive to a lot of people, media or not.

It’s sad too because he could have been great. He was independent and free from obligations to either party. But he couldn't get out of his own way. He couldn’t act “presidential”.

He should have picked his battles better instead of making everything into one. It gets tiring.

And that is why he lost.