Donald Trump is basically a cartoon character. It’s amazing. It’s like someone took every stereotype of what is wrong with the neo-conservative usurpers of the Republican party, rolled them into man-shaped dough, and then raised that up on a Frankensteinian platform into a life-giving media shitstorm.

The worst part is that people are taking him seriously, and I’m convinced that it’s because neocon media has spent so much time highlighting issues that xenophobes care about that an actual xenophobe, running on literally nothing beyond a thin veneer of nationalism and the strange idea that the 50’s were gosh-darn wonderful, has emerged as a viable candidate and all the attention the media’s been giving those issues has made that seem, to some, normal.

The problem, of course, is that the gays, the sluts, and the illegals are empirically not wrecking our economy, and when studies arrive showing, for example, that immigrants (legal or not) pay sales and other taxes, often without drawing the associated benefits, the neocon ideologue must turn to anti-intellectualism as a defense.

Thus Trump, the candidate who embodies every ideal of the dim xenophobe.

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