Right Leaning WALL STREET JOURNAL gives a Blistering Editorial Giving Trump Limited Time to Clean Up His Act

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Right-Leaning Wall Street Journal Turns Its Back On Trump In BLISTERING Op-Ed

By Rika Christensen on August 15, 2016 7:15 pm ·

Trump’s war on the media isn’t earning him any allies, and now it’s cost him one of the biggest, most well-known conservative outlets we’ve got: The Wall Street Journal. Their editorial boardpublished their opinion (paywall) of Trump late Sunday afternoon, and they didn’t hold back at all. The cutting editorial tells Trump to shape up, or ship out.

WSJ blasts Trump for his reliance on his rally turnouts and social media followings for indications of how he’s doing. They blast his refusal to actually work in the battleground states. They blast the disorganization and sheer incompetence of his campaign and his unpopularity:

“Mr. Trump has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign. Mrs. Clinton is the second most unpopular presidential nominee in history—after Mr. Trump. But rather than reassure voters and try to repair his image, the New Yorker has spent the last three weeks giving his critics more ammunition.”

Keep in mind that WSJ isn’t anything like close to liberal. They’re fun to cite when their stories contradict typical right-wing talking points because they lean so far to the right. Now, though, it looks like they feel  The Donald has betrayed them:

“Even with more than 80 days left, Mr. Trump’s window for a turnaround is closing. The ‘Trump pivot’ always seemed implausible given his lifelong instincts and habits, but Mr. Trump promised Republicans. ‘At some point I’ll be so presidential that you people will be so bored, and I’ll come back as a presidential person, and instead of 10,000 people I’ll have about 150 people and they’ll say, boy, he really looks presidential,’ he said in April.”

And then they ended with an ultimatum:

“If [his supporters] can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races. As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.”