All of Trump's problems were on full display last night - and today.

Strike one was picking a fight with Megyn Kelly, particularly when the facts aren't on your side. Kelly's inquiry about Donald Trump's habit of screaming epithets at his female opponents was completely valid.

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"Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”

It's a fair question, particularly since the Democrats are positively dying to turn the 2016 election into another excuse to trot out the asinine "War on Women" meme. Trump can say "I don't have time to be PC" all he likes, but the facts are what they are. He's given the Democrats decades worth of ugly soundbytes that you know they're already cataloging for commercials. Strike two was announcing a nebulous level of support for single payer healthcare in middle of a GOP debate. As the Weekly Standard writes:

During the first GOP debate, moderator Bret Baier said to Donald Trump, "15 years ago, you called yourself a liberal on health care. You were for a single-payer system, a Canadian-style system." "As far as single payer, it works in Canada," Trump replied. "It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you're talking about here."

If any other GOP candidate said that, you would have seen a hook come in from the right side of the stage to drag them away. First and foremost, as Forbes points out, he's wrong about single payer's alleged success. Second, it's not really a coherent answer. He didn't explain what "a different age" means, and he didn't explain what's different in our "current age." Canada still has its single-payer system, and Trump claims "it works." Please note, that's present tense. Perhaps worse, though, is the ambiguity. Is he trying to say "it works" in Canada, but won't work here? Or, is he offering some sort of tacit support for it? Strike three came in the post-debate spin room and, well, all day today. First, from the Washington Examiner:

“I thought their questions to me were much tougher than to other people, but maybe I expect that,” Trump said. “I thought it was an unfair question,” Trump said. “They didn’t ask those questions of everybody else…Those weren’t even questions. They were statements.” And more: “The questions to me were not nice,” Trump continued. “I didn’t think they were appropriate. And I thought Megyn behaved very badly, personally.”

Not nice? Seriously? If that was too much for him, imagine the beating he's going to take in the general election and - if he should win - in the White House. President's Reagan, Bush, and Bush all endured grillings - both in campaigns and in office - that make last night look like child's play. I don't recall them whining about questions being "not nice." Early this morning, he continued to show his thin skin on Twitter, where he's railed against how he was treated by the crew at Fox, including Frank Luntz. Look, I've made it clear that I think Trump is refreshing. It's a lot of fun to watch a would-be politician say what they actually think. However, if you're "shooting from the hip" you've got to hit something. Otherwise you're just making yourself look like you're out of control. Even if I agree that Fox was out to get Trump (and it certainly felt like they were) this isn't the way you handle it. If you're fielding a question about sexist epithets by passing along insults calling Megyn Kelly a bimbo, you're not doing yourself any favors. First of all, whatever else she may be, she's not a bimbo. Second, you just proved her point. Trump's bombast has carried him this far, but last night it was coupled with a genuine lack of specifics. He can identify problems, but he offered little in the way of solutions. Today, he's coming off as thin-skinned and too used to having his own way. If this is how he plans to play things for the rest of the election cycle, all the "plain talk" in the world won't stop his act from becoming a grating mess. Last night's debate probably didn't hurt him permanently, but it offered a real portrait of his faults. If he fails to correct his course, things are going to going to get ugly in a hurry.