Donald Trump is used to dealing with sleep-walkers with his brand of chaos, but this time, his methods are working against him. With 11 days until the US midterms, he is drowning and it shows. His old tricks make him like an old streetwalker going through the motions for a quick buck, or, in his case, a quick vote.

Not happening.

He doesn’t seem to understand that the old “rush in and break things” is a gambit that works for starups who have nothing to lose, and implodes on a legacy outlet that looks like it is having a cringey midlife crisis.

There is a difference between fighting to win and fighting not to lose and Trump is in the latter category.

MAGA is an old brand made worse that it was filled with a much older demographic, meaning it is a tumbleweed movement. No roots, and no chance of impressing the next generation.

Trump has backed himself in a corner. He surrounded himself with parasitic and narcissistic theorists, not people with relevant experience or expertise. They cannot help him; they can cling on to him until they either throw him under the bus or he beats them to the punch.

He cannot sail a sinking ship to victory in 11 days, but he is desperate to try with measures that will bite him in the backside.

Cancelling some of the tariffs against Canada is not going to change the outcome at this late stage of the game.

There is too much noise and the prices aren’t going to go down enough for it to make a difference. It just proves that Trump is a peasant who had a bad idea, and then refused to back down. People made it clear that the first time he did it was wrong, and then he did it again.

So people are going to think, “He’s just doing it to save a governor who is about to be voted out. He’ll put the tariffs back on the second the mid-terms are over.”

But Trump is now gone full autocrat and wanting to bully and cheat his way our of a jam.

Not only will these moves fail, but it will ensure more people go out to vote his people out.

It will always end up in the courts where he will lose, and finish off his reputation as a sore loser who never thought about tomorrow. He lives in the now and has no vision of the future.

And no leader can afford to be that short-sighted.

When you fly by the seat of your pants and can’t rule with anything but bullying and chaos, you are not a leader: you’re just some schmuck making extra work for other people because you don’t know your place.

You just want to wear a paper crown to make yourself look important.

Will his gambits work? Of course not: he is just postponing the inevitable, and the inevitable will not be postponed.

The more he fights his inevitable loss, the more he reminds people why he should have never been president in the first place.