I think the Islamist mass murder in Paris won’t be a huge factor in the election that is still more than a year away. It always seems so in the first days, but then people cool off and forget.

That’s not the problem. The problem is what happens if shit hits the fan very close to the election day.

The prospect of a Trump presidency is all too real, contrary to what complacent optimists think. And if not Trump, then Carson, who is arguably worse.