I think it’s everybody else that’s “easily distracted”. He uses his Twitter as a laser pointer with a cat, and he has been doing so for years. You don’t win an election against the Clinton political dynasty if you’re “easily distracted”.
As for the election, history says otherwise. DNC incompetence as well as Clinton arrogance all but handed Trump & Co the win. In addition, the fact that a "political unknown" was able to bubble to the top of the GOP ticket is more of an indictment of that party than any significant skill on Trump's part. Who did he beat? Cruz? Rubio? That's a notworthy accomplishment?
Pardon me for saying so (as it's not very HN) but...you're funny.
And you try to beat Cruz or Rubio (let alone “arrogant” Clinton and the entirety of mainstream press), and then come here and tell us if it’s a noteworthy accomplishment.
I'm being snarky. I'm curious as to how anyone can see the rest of the GOP'ers that tried to get the nomination as being worthy or it.
You're failing to recognize that GOP establishment hates Trump just as much as Democratic establishment does. They would rather fail themselves than let him win, because they feel it in their guts that if he wins, he won't keep them around for long. He's an anti-establishment candidate. That's the platform he ran on, and that's the platform he will run on in 2020 (and likely win again, unless Democrats can suppress their utter disdain for rural, working class voters).
So at this point, regardless of what you think about Trump, it's 4 more years of "let them eat cake" for we the people. That's guaranteed at this point.