WaPo Editorial: Trump’s reckless call to ‘Second Amendment people’
By Editorial Board August 9 at 7:29 PM
“HILLARY WANTS to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment,” Donald Trump said Tuesday. “By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”
The day after Mr. Trump delivered a relatively restrained speech on economic policy, the candidate once again trampled on Republican hopes that he would suddenly disguise himself as an acceptable politician.
“You aren’t just responsible for what you say,” Gen. Michael Hayden, a former CIA director, said in response to Mr. Trump’s remark. “You’re responsible for what people hear.”
What did people hear? Many no doubt assumed Mr. Trump to be recycling ugly tea party rhetoric that contemplates “Second Amendment remedies,” a term former Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle used in her 2010 campaign to suggest armed resistance to government “tyranny.” The voters rightly rejected Ms. Angle at the ballot box, and she receded from public view. But Mr. Trump’s flirtation with such rhetoric poses a greater threat. By seeming to encourage armed insurrection against a Hillary Clinton administration, Mr. Trump has recklessly magnified the danger of his previous claim that the election is being “rigged” against him.
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The only question now is how many more stupid, ignorant things he will say or do before November.
His campaign is over. He cannot win.
Many in the media don't even realize how bad it is. How is he going to win states like South Carolina & Mississippi they currently have in his column when their demographics show 30+ % black and 99% of blacks won't support the racist? Rhetorical question. He's done.
He's sick in the head and needs help.
