At a campaign rally in Iowa on Saturday GOP frontrunner Donald Trump bragged about how loyal his followers are.
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Trump boasted, as he formed his fingers into the shape of a gun and pointed at the crowd:
I'm beginning to believe that Trump could do about anything at this point and his most loyal followers would find a way to justify it. He makes disgusting, sexist comments about women and his supporters think it's hilarious —Megyn Kelly had it coming, they say. Trump makes fun of a reporter's disability and his loyalists laugh right along with him—because they love his ability to crush people under the awesome weight of his 3rd grade insults. He tells students at Liberty University that he's a good person and has no need for God's forgiveness and the crowd—including the school's president, Jerry Falwell, Jr.—goes wild. The guy is bigger than God now, I guess.
Matt Walsh wrote at the Blaze this week:
I watch it unfold feeling like a guy whose best friend just started dating the town floozy. I try to tell him that she’s sleeping around, she’s betraying him, she’ll break his heart, but he’s too smitten to hear me.
That's exactly what it feels like when you try to have a conversation with Trump's ardent followers. They are card-carrying members of Trump's cult of personality now, and I fear they're not coming back. You can't reason people out of something they haven't been reasoned into.
Many of these people are caught up in the emotion of this moment and it doesn't bother them one bit that a man who could quite possibly become president of the United States in a few months is openly bragging that his sycophants will blindly follow him, no matter what he does. But don't worry. It's all a show!
He's just entertaining the crowds and schlepping for votes. He doesn't really mean any of this crazy stuff. Except for the stuff we like, and then we're sure that he really, truly (pinky promise!) means all of that. Because he fights!
I've never in my life been so frightened for my country.