I hate you if you describe yourself on Twitter as a “Leading Influencer” or “Visionary Entrepreneur,” but not as much as I hate Donald Trump, a man who wants to become President solely so that he can give Fireside Chats about his erections. 

In a Bloomberg Q&A conducted by Sasha Issenberg, Mike Murphy says Trump is unelectable, though considering the political consultant has hitched his wagon to Jeb Bush, who is three times as dense as the planet Saturn, perhaps he’s not one to talk.

Murphy’s chagrin over the direction of the GOP is nothing new. After the Mitt Romney debacle, he coolly assessed the demographics, especially the growing Latino voting bloc, and said “if we don’t modernize conservatism, we can go extinct.”

An excerpt:

Question:

Has the tempo of the race been different than what you had anticipated when you first developed a campaign plan?

Mike Murphy:

Well, I knew it would be kind of hyper because that’s the business now. But one thing in hindsight is we got this paper crown of front-runner early that we didn’t want and I don’t think realistically we should have had. Because what happens is when the punditocracy says, “You’re the front-runner,” then they take a bunch of meaningless polls and a Donald Trump or a Kardashian or whatever jumps in and they say, “Now you’re not the front-runner.” So they put you on trial for them being wrong at the beginning. I think we’re getting a little bit of a bad rap on all that stuff but, you know, who cares? We’re going to power through it. …

Question:

One day after Jeb announced his candidacy, in mid-June, Trump got in. I assume you hadn’t anticipated what that would do to the campaign.

Mike Murphy:

I don’t think he’s been particularly good for the process, he’s trivialized it. I remember working in foreign countries in the past where like the beer brands would each run a candidate for president as a marketing gimmick. I thought “God, I hope this never comes to us,” because it just makes the election kind of a cheap card trick. And here we are.

Question:

How has Trump’s entry changed the race?

Mike Murphy:

It created a false zombie front-runner. He’s dead politically, he’ll never be president of the United States, ever. By definition I don’t think you can be a front-runner if you’re totally un-electable. I think there’s there an a-priori logic problem in that.

Question:

Has he been dead since he got in?

Mike Murphy:

I think so, yeah.•