Perhaps an alternate take of the situation

The left and the media believe that the Donald's campaign is on the ropes.

Maybe it is, or maybe it isn't.

One thing is clear:  if the current situation doesn't clear up, he will definitely lose.

You can't win with an internal feud within the party.

The Democrats have tried a gambit to fracture the party.  To me, it is like chess.  A gambit in chess is a risky move.  It can backfire.  The purpose of a gambit is to gain an advantage that may prove decisive.  But if there's a miscalculation, it can lose quickly.

I think the risk to the dems is to expose this Khan character.  If anybody asks questions about him, it can quickly turn into a loser for them.  They desperately want to keep Trump quiet on the Muslim Brotherhood front.  If Hillary gets tied to that, I think she cannot win.  ( but I could be wrong)

The opportunity for Trump is to tie her to the Muslim Brotherhood.  It could be a game changer.  In fact, I think it is a game changer.

It is not the time to go wobbly...  But here's a different take.

None of this makes sense unless you realize that absolutely none of this has anything to do with what they say it is about.  It isn't about Trump being a bad person.  That is so lame that I don't know if it should even be seriously discussed. 

What is it about then?  MONEY.

People are worried about their rice bowls.

Trump seems to be threatening the thing they care about more than anything else.  They aren't saying that because they can't.

So they bring up the straw man arguments.  None of these arguments seem to have any merit.  They cannot mean what they appear to mean.  It has to be something else.  Therefore, it has to be about the money.  What the hell else could it be?

So they want Trump to talk economics.  Trouble is, he can't talk economics in a way that will satisfy them.  This will not stop the wobblies in the ranks.

Basically we are going to hear their straw man arguments because they don't want to talk turkey.  The turkey is the economy.  That's a pun by the way.

The trouble is that the economic policies of Hillary and the GOP/Rino clique are not that far apart.

The truth is those policies are failing.  The solution isn't going to be pleasant for a lot of people.  They know that.  I think that is what is making them nervous about The Donald.  It's going to hurt and they know it.

What they don't believe is that anything is really wrong.  But that flies in the face of the opinion polls.

People know something is wrong.  But getting rid of the other party won't work.  It hasn't worked before in history.  One party states will fail.

Therefore the argument that all we need to do is get rid of those other guys, and things will be fine, is a non starter.

It isn't working now.  It won't work in the future either.

Trump's theme is to make America great again.  If it is great now, why are so many people unhappy?

Trump's challenge is to remain firm, but be reassuring at the same time.  The test of the man is going to come pretty soon, I suspect.  If he cannot end this rebellion in the party, he cannot win.

That may be impossible, by the way.  The critics do say "never Trump".  Trump can't stop being Trump.  He can't be what they want him to be.  I don't think he wants to go away.  You may not have a solution for this.

Truth may be hard and painful, but denying it will never get you anywhere.

The truth is that if he doesn't go away, and if his critics won't accept him, the GOP is going to lose, and probably pretty badly.

If they succeed in castrating him, he won't be any good anymore.  Trump can't stop being Trump.  There is no good solution for the never Trump crowd.  If they think that a huge defeat will enable them to pick up the pieces, I think they are kidding themselves.

Trump can make some moves to reassure them, but the other side has to make their own moves to be more supportive.

The Gold Star flap is nonsense.  It is about MONEY.

We'll see how it plays out.