Trump is Catching – Not Catching On, Just Contagious

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Tuesday August 16, 2016 · 1:50 PM PDT

2016/08/16 · 13:50

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I just watched Rick Perry on CNN defend Donald Trump for attacking the parents of Captain Humayun Khan. His claim was that The Donald was justified in attacking this family because they used a partisan event to attack Trump for no reason other than that they didn’t like him.

He seems to have missed the entire point of their appearance: to contrasts Trump’s xenophobic, Islamophobic, intolerant, racist rants with the fact that an American family of Muslims had lost their son fighting for this country. He missed it completely. Never even saw it go sailing over his head.

Yes, it’s possible that he had gotten the point and was intentionally spinning it. First, this is Rick Perry. Second, only Trump’s regular spokespeople have had enough practice defending his lies to have pulled this off. Third, this is not the only instance of temporary stupidity that goes even below the low bar set by Republican pretenders to the presidency.

Rudy Giuliani, while defending Trump, completely forgot about 9/11, claiming, “By the way, under those eight years before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States. They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office.”

It’s spreading. And in the end, does it really matter whether it’s stupidity, insanity, or duplicity? Trump is catching, and it is our political discourse that he has infected.

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