Stephen King did an interview over at the Daily Beast promoting a new Hulu show he has coming out. He talked about the JFK assassination as it is the subject of his new series. But he also talked about pivotal moments in history like the JFK assassination because his story has a science-fiction, time travel thing going on in it. He discussed how you could have changed what happened in Florida in November of 2000. He talked about 9/11 and the wars we are now involved in. He then moved on to Trump:
In the debate the Republicans had [in New Hampshire], Marco Rubio repeated the same talking point three or four times—and got his clock cleaned by Christie—and it’s almost like his candidacy has become a very perilous thing. It was a classic gotcha moment. But if it would’ve been Trump, it wouldn’t have mattered, because this guy can say that “Megyn Kelly was after me” because she was on her period. He can say he didn’t mean that, but that’s obviously what he meant. He can talk about Ted Cruz being a pussy and it just bounces off! It’s like he’s bulletproof. Will he get nominated? I would’ve said the idea is ridiculous even four months ago, but now I’m not so sure. Then people are saying that if he does get nominated he’d never get elected, and I’m saying, well, hopefully that won’t happen. But who knows.
Who does know? The interviewer said he himself is a bit more worried about Ted Cruz, and King—the Emperor of the dark stories and the creepy crawlies—responded:
He’s very scary. I actually think Trump, in the end, would be more electable than Cruz because Cruz is a fundamentalist Christian and it would almost be like electing the analog of an Imam—someone whose first guiding principle would be the scripture rather than the Constitution.
You have to be so absolutely frightening to make Donald Trump look like a truly viable political candidate.