By Craig Andresen Right Side Patriots http://www.americanpbn.com/

While Donald Trump has said that, “I’m capable of changing to anything I want to change to,” is has become obvious that what he meant was that he’s able to pander to whoever he wants to but he has shown, all too often, that he has no intention at all of changing.

Over the past two weeks, Trump has launched frivolous and baseless attacks against Heidi Cruz, the baseless National Enquirer rubbish smelled of his hair gel and Mexican made clothing line,  issued multiple statements regarding his multiple positions on abortion, had a disastrous, nationally televised town hall appearance in which he contradicted himself over and over again while naming education and healthcare as two of the three primary functions of government and had his Chinese made campaign hat handed to him by Wisconsin talk radio host Charlie Sykes.

But change?

No, Donald Trump hasn’t changed one little bit and that is exactly why he got pummeled in the Wisconsin primary Tuesday night. Further evidence of Trump’s inability to change was evident  in a statement released by his campaign after Tuesday night’s utter defeat in Wisconsin…

“Donald J. Trump withstood the onslaught of the establishment yet again. Lyin’ Ted Cruz had the Governor of Wisconsin, many conservative talk radio show hosts, and the entire party apparatus behind him. Not only was he propelled by the anti-Trump Super PAC’s spending countless millions of dollars on false advertising against Mr. Trump, but he was coordinating `with his own Super PAC’s (which is illegal) who totally control him. Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet— he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump. We have total confidence that Mr. Trump will go on to win in New York, where he holds a substantial lead in all the polls, and beyond. Mr. Trump is the only candidate who can secure the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination and ultimately defeat Hillary Clinton, or whomever is the Democratic nominee, in order to Make America Great Again.”

Same old tired, baseless rhetoric, same old baseless accusations, same old name calling, same old whining, same old self-inflated ego…same old Donald Trump.

What voters in Wisconsin did on Tuesday night was two-fold…they said that they had had quite enough of the same old Donald Trump who tries to distract from his blatant and total lack of substance by launching baseless insults and attacks so as to command the attention of an ambulance chasing mainstream media and they said that, in terms of who would make the bests leader for our nation, they stood with a man of great substance who has, over and over again, articulated his plans, strategies and policies in an unwavering and unbendable way…Ted Cruz.

Donald Trump isn’t about to change because he’s incapable of changing who he really is…a narcissistic, whining windbag whose only strategy is to level baseless attacks at those who he feels are standing in the way of him becoming the Emperor. It’s all he knows. He’s built a business empire upon that strategy and upon surrounding himself with sycophants and he’s trying to do the same thing in his campaign.

Even Before Donald trump’s crushing loss in Wisconsin Tuesday night, there were signs that his candidacy , and especially his campaign, were in disarray as one after another, Trump has been firing key members of his campaign staff.

Matt Braynard, the head of Trump’s data team was released by Trump late last month and as a replacement, Trump, who his blind followers always tell us, hires none but the best and brightest, put in the number 2 person who reportedly has little to no high-level campaign strategy experience and then shifted some of the data duties to a 2015 graduate who’s sum total experience wise was an internship for Colgate-Palmolive.

However, if you ask Trump’s campaign manager of thuggary, Cory Lewandowski, everything is just fine. “We have the most cohesive, loyal staff, the most loving staff I have ever had the privilege of working with on a campaign.”

Those were Lewandowski’s exact words and I suggest, within them, we can clearly see the key…”loyal.”

Also, according to Lewandowski, “Just like a real corporation, the people who are doing the best and want to continue on, they’re given that opportunity. Some people don’t want to move for family reasons or whatever it may be. And then, some people, based on performance have been not given the privilege of moving.”

Let’s look at the facts…

Since Trump’s loss in Iowa…only 4 of his 11 paid staff stayed with the campaign. Most…nearly all of Trump’s paid staffers in Florida, Ohio and in South Carolina have been fired.

Trump, on Tuesday night, called Ted Cruz a puppet and a Trojan horse…but it is Trump himself who has to surround himself with puppets and it is actually he, that is the Trojan horse. When Trump or his minions talk about “loyal” staff…what they’re really talking about is blind loyalty and my guess is that those who have “not been given the privilege of moving” on with the trump campaign are those who may well have been suggesting that trump change his approach and stop the baseless, rhetorical attacks and name calling.

It has been widely reported that Trump makes his volunteers sign a six page “contract” which holds the volunteer to, “hereby promise and agree not to demean or disparage publicly the Company, Mr. Trump, any Trump Company, any Family Member, or any Family Member Company or any asset any of the foregoing own, or any product or service any of the foregoing offer, in each case by or in any of the Restricted Means and Contexts and to prevent your employees from doing so.”

The “contract” also stipulates both a No Competitive Services and No Competitive Solicitation clause so as to prevent volunteers from leaving to work for any other campaign but the “contract,” according to labor attorneys would not hold legal standing. What Trump is essentially doing, is trying to intimidate his volunteers from exercising their 1^st Amendment rights but if that is what his volunteers have to sign onto…can you even imagine what his paid staff must sign onto?

I believe what we have seen, with the spate of recent Trump dismissals of staff members, are staff members who may well have attempted to suggest to Trump that he “change” into something of a substance oriented campaign mode rather than being the sycophants Trump insists surround him at all times.

Donald Trump’s campaign is directly aimed at the lowest common denominator of the electorate…the low-information voter and it spills over to embrace the gullible and the simply anger-driven voters but it simply cannot compete against the high-information, heavy on substance campaign of Ted Cruz which is why, in states where policy and well-articulated and reasoned plans are delivered by a steady, unwavering, honest candidate, Trump loses and Cruz wins.

While Trump’s bombastic, ill-conceived and baseless attack tactics will continue to garner delegates, so too will Cruz’s substance rich, well-articulated campaign and the result will be that neither candidate will amass the 1,237 delegates needed for the nomination at the onset of the June convention…low-information and angry, gullible voters going with Trump while high-information and reasoned voters going with Ted Cruz.

This is exactly why Trump’s campaign is now in desperation mode…he knows he can’t get the 1,237 needed before the convention and he also knows, that when the convention goes to a second or third round of voting…the delegates will coalesce behind Ted Cruz, because of Cruz’s policy substance, making Cruz the Republican nominee.

This is why, in the wake of Trump’s Wisconsin drubbing, he now says he will “change” into a more substantive mode with a series of policy speeches to be delivered over the next two weeks heading toward the primary in New York but here’s the problem…

In testing his new policy matters approach…Donald Trump isn’t making any sense at all as he simply hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about.

Regarding his wall, and making Mexico pay for it…Trump finally, after nine months, released what he considers to be the how to details which center on stopping payments of U.S. dollars being sent to Mexico via Western Union unless Mexico makes a lump sum, one time blackmail payment of between $5 billion and $10 billion dollars.

First, it is completely unclear if that would even be legal…second, unless he does it by Executive Order, just as Obama has done with amnesty, congress wouldn’t go along with it…third, which is it…$5 billion or $10 billion…fourth…Trump’s proposed 1000 mile wall would cost at least $20 billion to build and that doesn’t include maintenance costs and finally…if he does it by Executive Order and if he can, somehow, track and stop these remittance payments targeting only the illegals and not the legal immigrants., the effect would be devastating to the economy of Mexico thus bringing a tsunami of more illegal aliens rushing across the border so as to flee the dictatorial sanction imposed by the Emperor Trump.

Then, there was Trump’s trial balloon regarding ridding us of all $19 trillion dollars of our national debt in 8 years…a scheme that according to Trump, relies on him, and him alone, renegotiating all trade deals in combination with using money on hand, which as we are currently $19 trillion dollars in debt is non-existent, along with some sort of fire or garage sale of a multitude of government buildings and by the selling of energy pulled from government owned lands.

So…in this fiscal fantasy, Trump intends to keep land now owned by the federal government rather than give it back to the states or to private ownership and use the energy under those lands to pay off the federal debt rather than allowing the states or private owners of the land to benefit and he’ll hold a garage sale or auction of federal buildings and poof…$19 trillion dollars of national debt vanishes over 8 years.

First…Trump is only talking about the national debt but not about annual deficit spending, so doing nothing regarding the latter, there is no way to eliminate the former.

Second…the CBO projects another $10 trillion dollars in discretionary spending over the next 8 years, and an additional $7 trillion dollars added to the national debt in the next 8 years, so what we’re really talking about here is eliminating $26 trillion in national debt and if Trump were to close down each and every government agency, including the Defense Department for 8 years…he would still be $10 trillion dollars short of eliminating the national debt.

Third…and the one thing nobody else has brought up…if Trump can eliminate all of our national debt as easily as he claims…either $19 trillion or $26 trillion dollars…why then did he declare 4 business bankruptcies to get out of only a few million dollars of debt in his business practices?

And fourth…renegotiating trade deals, the way Trump has said he would with huge tariffs, would most likely lead to trade wars that would sink us into a major recession but, even if the renegotiated trade deals reaped a 20% of GDP boon to the economy…over 8 years…which would be the highest on record in the past century…Trump would still be $12 trillion dollars short of eliminating the entire national debt.

Sure…it all sounds good to the low-information or gullible voters who comprise Trump’s base, but the reality is, not that his base is at all concerned with reality, that Trump’s attempts at policy substance are as rooted in facts and reality as are flying pigs and rainbow farting unicorns.

Donald Trump’s policy positions are laughable at best and disastrous should they ever actually be attempted in practice. All that Trump is attempting to do, with a series of policy speeches, is further bluff the low-information and gullible voters that have become his blind following in a desperate attempt to add gravitas to his campaign of blathering rhetoric.

Trump has substituted fantasy for substance.

The reality if his situation is…the delegates who will decide who will become the Republican nominee in June, are not low-information, gullible voters who will blindly follow or adhere to his nonsense.