Nothing rattles around the Trump noggin quite as loudly as a conspiracy theory. Whether it’s been fed to him by Breitbart, or Alex Jones, or beamed down to his hairpins from an unknown location, Donald Trump is there for a good conspiracy theory. And it looks like he has a new one.
Trump at a Florida rally on Wednesday questioned why Ryan, who effectively conceded Trump's White House chances during a call with lawmakers this week, wouldn't come out and congratulate him after Sunday's presidential debate.
Wouldn't you think Paul Ryan would call and say, 'good going'?" Trump said in Ocala.
"You'd think they'd say, 'Great going, Don. Let's go, let's beat this crook. Let's beat her. We've got to stop her.' No, he doesn't do that. There's a whole deal going on. We're going to figure it out. I always figure things out. There's a whole sinister deal."
A “sinister deal” … with who? Is Trump implying that Ryan and the Republican Party have made a deal to betray him? Is it a deal with Hillary? The media? Et tu, Paul?
Don’t worry. Detective Trump is on the job! Not only is he going to figure out this sinister deal, he’s going to explain why this is the last chance to save America.
At a rally in Ocala, Florida, Trump warned supporters “this is the last time you’ll ever have a chance to save our country.”
What is Trump trying to save America from? He’s a little reluctant to say it outright, but …
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The reason this is the last election in which America can be saved is fairly clear ...
“It’s not gonna happen anymore. You won’t be able — the numbers will be too great.”
It’s brown people, all right? This is the last election in which America might be saved for Trump voters against the rising numbers of people who are Not Like Them.
And it’s not being made easier, what with that sinister plot. A plot which is clear because it doesn’t acknowledge greatness.
“Instead of calling me and saying, ‘Congratulations, you did a great job, you absolutely destroyed her in the debate like everybody said,’” Trump began, trailing off to boast about how Pat Buchanan called his performance against Hillary Clinton during Sunday’s debate “the single greatest debate performance in the history of presidential politics.”
Pat Buchanan called the performance great, and dammit, Pat Buchanan knows greatness. Pat Buchanan also knows when someone is being unfairly attacked.
In a 1990 column for the New York Post, he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk (whom he later compared to Jesus Christ) against charges from Holocaust survivors that he was guilty of murder by accusing the survivors of misremembering all of it: “This so-called ‘Holocaust Survivor Syndrome’ involves ‘group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.’
And now we have a sinister plot. Donald Trump should really make Buchanan one of his surrogates. He’ll fit right in with Rudy and Ailes.
Trump supporters will love him. Buchanan even predicted the central theme of this campaign 10 years in advance.
“If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.”
That's Trumpism in a nutshell.
