The challenge for the other candidates is to get others to see them as Trump's boss rather than the other way around. So far he's the only one who's demonstrated natural alpha leadership, and the resulting hierarchy appears as natural and inevitable as you'd find in any wild pack.
When he is "attacked" by others, the overwhelming sense you get is that the other candidates are almost literally asking him for permission to maybe say something he might disagree with.
His opponents treat him with reverence. The presumption is that he is going to turn to them and say, "Yaw fiyid!" and somehow, someway, he's going to make it happen and you will be yanked offstage via an astonishingly long cane/hook device.
Angry, dismissive alpha, so far at least, in this particular cycle, has dominated the day. I don't know that any viable opposition can pull it off (a transition to a similar tone. i highly doubt it but sometimes they surprise you), but it might be their last and only hope.
The narrative right now is that for every day spent fundraising and schmoozing by a garden variety politician, Donald Trump is rallying with thousands, building 6 hotels and making deals with China to help kill Isis while convincing Mexico to finance a wall along its northern border.
In difficult economic times, impolite, productivity-focused leadership, perhaps entirely justifiably and/or "rigthly" so, rules the day.
When people are in a hurry to get to work, they often drive like real assholes.
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