Donald Trump has abruptly fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski (pictured), a short-tempered, grudge-bearing schemer reportedly blamed by the Trump family for the rackety state of their patriarch’s presidential campaign. Soon after the crewcut-haired former New Hampshire state police officer was escorted from campaign headquarters on June 20th, one of his former underlings gleefully tweeted out a snatch of “Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead”, from “The Wizard of Oz”.
But in truth Mr Lewandowski did not bewitch anyone. Nor was he a tyrannical figure whose toppling will transform the Trump campaign, instantly, into a Technicolor land of dancing, liberated Munchkins. He was a ferocious loyalist, an over-promoted henchman-type whose avowed guiding principle was: “Let Trump be Trump”. Until now, that has been Mr Trump’s guiding principle, too—and therein lies Mr Lewandowski’s real significance. His sacking, now, will matter greatly if it means that the property tycoon has finally understood that the primary period of this election season is over, and with it the months of heady, screw-the-experts, instinct-led,...Continue reading
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