Trump vs Fox

Donald Trump has pulled out of Thursday's debate on Fox News, as far as I can tell it is basically unprecedented for a front runner to pull out of a debate, let alone the final one before the Iowa caucuses, it does provide an interesting bit of insight into the man though.

He's a coward.

I know that isn't a unique take on him, but it's worse than I had originally thought, see, the reason Trump has decided to step out of this debate is that Fox, showing more journalistic integrity than I thought they had, has refused to remove Megyn Kelly from her position as moderator, now Kelly is as morally bankrupt as they come, being a Fox News commentator after all, but her performance at the first debate set the bar for hard hitting questions and really no other debate has given us a substantive look at the candidates since.
Trump is an enormous orange baby and has had it out for her since then

So he's out, he couldn't handle the idea of a woman asking him hard questions, so he is going to have his own event instead, apparently to benefit Wounded Warrior and talk about how the Man is trying to keep him down. He will attempt to spin it as his fight with the liberal media, and because  of his money and the ratings he brings, he just might pull it off, alternatively he has just given all his opponents two hours of screen time to talk shit about him without him being able to respond, I assume some of them will.

He's gambling that his exploits will generate more attention than a debate that doesn't have him in it, and he gets to play the rebel while still controlling virtually all the narratives of the election. It might  work, but I don't think he has time to take that market share away and set something impressive up, he can't just make his usual stump speech here, and the one thing he doesn't want going into Iowa is a downswing in his polls, attention is his lifeblood and if it goes away, so will he.

Which makes his decision to forego the free attention from the debate all the more unwise, and exposes him as a poor planner who makes emotional decisions rather than actually thinking about the consequences of his actions, he didn't want to be in a position where he had to show respect for Megyn Kelly, therefore he threw a fit, Fox did not give in so he is taking his ball and going home, even if it doesn't hurt him in the primary(and it likely won't that much) that shit ain't gonna fly withe the general population, what's he gonna do if Putin insults him? Or the president of Mexico calls his border wall the dumbest idea imaginable? Declare war? Why would you vote for that? He's exposed a weakness and by doing so, potentially given up another one unless this weekend plays out exactly right for him.