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An Even Stranger Donald Trump

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"The New York Times" ran an editorial (excerpted below) today. It describes the descent into madness that is Donald Trump and his followers. I suggest this as an alternative, and far more insightful, view to the dynamic of who is following Trump than was offered in the recent thread "A New View on Trump" (which I did not find new).

"Donald Trump’s rallies once drew their share of benign conservatives, offbeat libertarians and plain curiosity seekers. But as time and Mr. Trump’s act have worn on, many of them have no doubt gone the way of his poll numbers. Mr. Trump’s crowds remain big and loud, but they’re angrier and more malevolent, and so is Mr. Trump.

At a rally on Wednesday ... Mr. Trump said:

'In many respects you know they honor President Obama. ISIS is honoring President Obama! He is the founder of ISIS. He’s the founder of ISIS, O.K.! He’s the founder, he founded ISIS and I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton. Co-founder, crooked Hillary Clinton. And that’s what it’s about.' As the crowd erupted into cheers and chants of 'Lock her up,' Mr. Trump then smiled and basked in the crowd’s applause.

Mr. Trump repeated the false charge on Thursday, saying he’d continue his inflammatory campaign, even if it meant losing in November.

A vast majority of Americans, of course, understand that Mr. Obama did not create ISIS, nor does the group, which targets Western nations, 'honor' him or any other American leader. Some may even recall an ISIS beheading video released last year in which a masked jihadist stood before a bound, kneeling Kurdish soldier and declared: 'Know, oh Obama, that we will reach America. Know also that we will cut off your head in the White House and transform America into a Muslim province.'

If Mr. Trump knows this, he doesn’t care. By referring to the president by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, he continues to wink at some of his staunchest supporters: conspiracy theorists obsessed with the false claim that Mr. Obama is a secret Muslim. The trolls and websites that advance racist theories have supplied Mr. Trump with talking points for years. He consulted with one of them in 2011, when he launched his “birther” campaign, falsely claiming that Mr. Obama was born outside the United States.

Sure enough, Mr. Trump’s Twitter legions took up the call. Tweeted one: 'Barack Hussein Obama is the Founder of ISIS! America’s Islamist-in-Chief, America’s Muslim-in-Charge. An ongoing disaster threatening World!'

One whose Twitter avatar is the muzzle of a revolver wrote, 'So Why Can’t Barack Hussein Obama Admit #ISIS Beheaded Christians?'

Another posted a faked photo of Mr. Obama in the Oval Office, with the black flag of ISIS behind him, dressed in what appears to be Islamic clerical garb, with the message, 'Founder of ISIS: Barack Hussein Obama has directly and indirectly financed and armed ISIS.'

When Mr. Trump fans racist rage against the president, suggests that gun owners take up arms against Mrs. Clinton, or speaks darkly of a 'rigged' election, he is not trying to woo Republican skeptics, independents or undecided voters. He is appealing to the mob..."

Link...http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/opinion/an-even-stranger-donald-trump.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
 
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