Heeeeeeerrrre’s Donny! Trump’s slide into outright insanity is every bit as rapid and disturbing as that of Jack Torrance in The Shining and he’s doing an arguably worse job of masking it.
As reported by The Hill (bold is mine):
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump raised eyebrows at a rally Sunday, when he claimed his rival would let 650 million immigrants into the county.
Hillary Clinton “wants to let people just pour in,” Trump said at a rally in Albuquerque, N.M. “You could have 650 million people pour in. … You triple the size of our country in one week.”
650 million in a week? That would be more than the population of every country in South and Central America and Canada combined.
My first thought was that this was a whole new level of wtf even for a complulsive liar and habitual exaggerator of Trump’s caliber but in truth, it falls far short of what a large percentage of Trump supporters are completely willing to believe.
I’m reminded of this bit from Public Policy Polling’s Florida poll from two weeks ago:
Alex Jones floated the notion this week that Hillary Clinton is actually a demon, and 40% of Trump voters say that they really do think Clinton is a demon to only 42% who dismiss that idea. This measurement pretty clearly shows that 40% of Trump's base is the InfoWars crowd, so they're not going to be too dissuaded by allegations of sexual misconduct.
Not that many years ago, what’s happening in this election could have been the plot of a cerebral horror flick. If you’ve ever wondered how the everyday German could have possibly fallen under the spell of Hitler — wonder no more.