'Getting freakier': Analyst sees Trump devolving into 'sheer lunacy' days before election

The Bulwark's A.B. Stoddard this week marveled at the way that former President Donald Trump is closing out his campaign by seemingly getting more unhinged.

In her latest piece, Stoddard argued that the former president appears to be trying to blow his chances of winning the race as he isn't even trying to deliver a disciplined and coherent message aimed at winning over undecided voters.

She thinks that this was recently exemplified by his mocking Nikki Haley for losing her home state to him after he was asked about bringing her on the campaign trail in the closing weeks.

"By alienating the very demographic he needs to close out this election, Trump almost looks like he wants to blow this," she writes. "Trump’s special sauce — of ignorance and incoherence mixed with his narcissism — is getting freakier... His response to a Florida voter asking whether numerous natural disasters had caused him to reconsider his position on climate change was sheer lunacy."

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Stoddard argued that Trump at this point clearly believes that he is winning the campaign and doesn't need to even pretend to be interested in striking a more moderate tone.

Should he pull it off, Stoddard writes, it bodes very ill for how he will govern.

"While Trump has called this campaign 'the final battle,' he is treating it almost like a joke," she concludes. "The recklessness he exhibited in October makes it clear he is more unmoored from reality than we previously thought. His victory would be ever more dangerous than what we have feared."