Republished from the Financial Times ( FT) Donald Trump: Unshackled, Unhinged ,Politically Insane but hey lets not straight jacket him until November 8th.

Republished with Permission of the FT ( Financial Times) and the Author Neil Munshi 

There are exactly four weeks until election day, and with his poll numbers plummeting in the wake of a video that showed him bragging about sexually assaulting women, Donald Trump has found his true enemy: Republicans. The Republican nominee went on a Twitter tirade this morning, focused on speaker of the House Paul Ryan and GOP leaders. The posts came the day after Ryan said he would no longer campaign for or defend his party's nominee, essentially conceding that Trump will not win in November. (Here's Politico's look inside Ryan's decision to essentially dump Trump.) But the posts make clear that Trump is not going down without a fight or more precisely, as Chris Cillizza writes, "blowing up the Republican Party". He has also turned some of his ire on his ostensible opponent, Hillary Clinton, doubling down on his promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her if he wins. He also said that if more tapes of him are released similar to the footage that showed him boasting about grabbing women's genitals, he would "continue to talk about Bill and Hillary Clinton doing inappropriate things".  Few pundits believe rehashing Bill Clinton's scandals - or using them to attack his wife - is a winning strategy for a man facing a historic deficit among female voters that was highlighted in a new PRRI/Atlantic poll, where she leads Trump by 33 points among women. The poll is the second in two days that shows Clinton leading by double digits - in this case 11 points - a deficit that may threaten GOP control of the Senate and even the House.  To that end, my colleagues Courtney Weaver and Demetri Sevastopulo report that Clinton's improving fortunes have altered how Democrats plan to play the race. A person close to the Clinton super-Pac Priorities USA told them it will make a decision in the coming days about making multimillion dollar ad buys in states including North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Ohio - all for down-ballot races. Meanwhile, WikiLeaks is releasing a steady stream of emails hacked from Clinton adviser John Podesta that, perhaps unsurprisingly, reveals a cautious campaign that "strained to hone her message". Some iterations of that message included perhaps the worst campaign slogan of all time, from longtime Clinton friend - and ad man - Roy Spence: “Neither change nor continuity but The different way. The new way ... She champions with clear vision and grit. We will build not the partisans ships. But rather the Ship of State flying the American Dream flag.” That's it for today. And may you too fly high the American Dream flag on your own Ship of State. --Neil Munshi