Xenophobic Republican candidate Donald Trump is working hard to capitalize on the Paris attacks, saying on Morning Joe that we need to “watch and study the mosques” here in the US.

“You’re going to have to watch and study the mosques, because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques,” the GOP presidential candidate said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“And from what I heard, in the old days — meaning a while ago — we had great surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City,” Trump added….He also suggested that he would consider shutting down some mosques in the U.S. in order to defeat ISIS, reiterating a point he made during an interview last month on Fox Business.

“I would hate to do it, but it’s something that you’re going to have to strongly consider because some of the ideas and some of the hatred, the absolute hatred, is coming from these areas,” Trump said.

Trump is saying these things because he has a finger squarely on the pulse of the ignorant propagandized Republican voting base, and he knows by this point that there’s nothing too bigoted for him to say. The base eats this stuff up.