Donald Trump’s recent campaign management shakeup is a Hail Mary move meant to reincarnate his authentic, populist self, revive his outsider status and help him ride the combative populist sentiment that earlier propelled him along an astonishing path to the GOP nomination. But this approach is an unlikely path to general election victory. It’s a circle-the-wagons-against-the outsiders mentality that polls suggest is likely to fail since Trump’s only path to victory would be to attract voters who not already Breitbart News junkies.  By naming Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon as his top campaign executive, Trump is taking a detractive, rather than additive approach to voter engagement, even among would-be allies on the right. Recently, Breitbart News has taken numerous shots at establishment figures like House Speaker Paul Ryan, who could have helped Trump if he had been interested in governing instead of bluster. But Trump’s slash-and-burn approach to the election has shown, as described in “The Art of War,” that he didn’t care about winning. That would have meant doing the hard work of cultivating party unity rather than division. Trump stubbornly thought he could win without shoring up the GOP, and this strategy is on the brink of failure. What’s even more troubling for conservatives is contemplating what the party will be like after Trump’s…
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