Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points to the audience after addressing the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference in Washington on Friday (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)The presumptive Republican Party nominee is playing the Fear Card.
He has to, because – other than ignorance and a dyed blonde comb-over – it’s all he’s got.
That’s not to say Trump’s exploitation of fear is inconsequential. On the contrary, Comb-over’s use of fear to stoke political support isn’t just dangerous – it’s plain evil.
A New York Times editorial Tuesday pegged it: “If there is anyone who might try to turn one of the worst atrocities in modern American history to his own warped ends, who could draw all the wrong lessons from the horror of what happened in Orlando, it is Donald Trump.”
Unfortunately, the fear-card tactic has been working for the candidate who’s been married three times, filed four bankruptcies, refuses to open his tax filings for voters and mocks women, minorities and the disabled – all things that should automatically disqualify most candidates.