re: #74 makeitstop

Ah. True.

I still believe he got freaked by the Paris attacks, though.

My take on Trump is that he’s a complete bullshitter. By this I mean that I don’t know if there’s any connection between what he says, and what he believes and feels. So I don’t know if HE was freaked out by the Paris attacks, and further freaked out by the San Bernardino attack, but his BASE sure was, and he got right out in front of all the rising Islamophobia.

His modus operandi is to identify a hot button issue for the angry white people base, and to not only tell them they’re right, but propose the craziest shit that they want as an actual policy. It would not surprise me to see him proposing internment or deportation for Muslim noncitizens, the next time there’s an attack, because that’s what his base wants.

IOW, I don’t assume he means what he says, ever. He’s the ultimate con man. He says what works.