Trump understands how to brand those posing an obstacle to his goal in saving this country. Calling him stupid or crazy is giving him even further advantage.  He is playing them, and they are helpless to do anything other than react. He knows exactly how they are going to react. The more Democrats double down using their same tactics which have already been idenitifed as manipulative and so obviously hypocritical, the more we see exactly what Trump means. But they are so engulfed in their own hate and so used to being the entitled arrogant ones in power, they have only one response.