[quote=@mdk]
I fucking love what Donald Trump is doing to politics. I'm not going to vote for him or anything, but I'd totally go to a rally. Would you rather pay $2700 to get a photo with Hil-Dawg or sit in on an epic rant?

The various news agencies are flat-out fucking unprepared for a person rich and ballsy enough that they can't put him in their pocket (and by 'the news agencies,' I guess I really mean 'the people who own them'). It's brilliant to watch. 
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Media loves this guy, there is not way they would ever want him to change. Look at last nights debate. Trump didn't force them to try and sell it as a Trump-win despite him not going. They did that on their own.

This is Trump's strong suite: he knows how the media works. They don't want a hero, they want headlines, and he knows how to make headlines. Will they sell him as a villain? Of course, their audiences love to hate him, and they know how to sell a good love-to-hate story. And Trump will play up the villain card because the contrarians that form his support base are looking for the Jesus character, who the wicked general population hates and vilifies because his message is too pure.