It’s About the Electorate Not Him

People on TV right now are asking how it is that Donald Trump is now so much wobblier than he was in past blowups. Or why is the press being harder on him now? All these different questions. All of them, I think, miss the point. The issue is that Trump is now operating in front of a different electorate. It wants different things. It is willing to accept different things. That is the entirety of the matter. The general electorate is not the GOP primary electorate. He has to react to that. The press inevitably reacts to that. But the real issue is that press scrutiny didn’t matter in the GOP primaries because Trump’s supporters generally liked or were indifferent to what reporters found. This is all about a different electorate.