His supporters are the Brownshirts. They're the one that are acting on his stochastic terrorism.

cluster B personality disorder, as it turns out, falls in what's known as the "dark triad" (narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy). Sociopaths fall in this group.

I'd tended to see Trump as fairly benign, but given this behavior, he may be revealing some of the characteristics that cause it to be called "dark." Destructive manipulations of others are very often present, so stochastic terrorism may be right on.

the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”

― Michel Foucault

to those scary looking brown people. He's standing strong, doncha know?

and, sure some of them may have collected unemployment or disability pay, but they really really really deserved it, unlike those lazy-good-for-nothing free-loading foreigners!

...are quite possibly even more afraid that he could win. I'm beginning to feel that chill myself. Trump is damned dangerous to the country, not just their party, and they know it.

Is more afraid that if they piss him off, he will run on a third party ticket, and that would be the end of the GOP's hopes to get back in the WH. Hell some times it seems as if Trump is trying to piss the all of so he "can" run third party.

I think they'd be afraid to lose, but even more afraid to "win"...

But the GOP establishment doesn't give one jack fucking piece of shit about this Country. They are afraid he can't win, and if he does win, that they can't control him.

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Registering Jews and registering Muslims, should terrify every decent American.

in fact, they embrace it

I've heard rumors that "many moderate Republicans" are "disturbed" by Trump. I actually believe that's true, but when push comes to shove, they won't "repudiate" him, and they won't disown him. At best, they'll remain silent.

the GOP tends to toe the line when push comes to shove.

Of course, if even a small percentage are turned off and don't vote, it helps.

And how you wondered how this insane man could get into power?
And how you pretended that you would oppose anything like that?

Well?

(this is only intended for our right wing patriots)

How long will it be before Jeb, Scott Walker, Rubio. etc. are considered liberal to moderate? Where does that leave the Democrats?

Nevertheless, he sounds like Ernst Röhm more and more lately.

I hate Nazi comparisons, but they are, unfortunately, entirely appropriate here. Trump is stirring his followers into behaving like stormtroopers and suggesting measures against immigrant Muslims that sound eerily like the Nazi persecution of European Jews. That's scary.

To appoint Trump. This is one time where our winner takes all system protects us from the likes of this mad carnival barker.

They will embrace it in a bear hug. It's a sure winner with their base.

The Great and Glorious Third America?

Fuck the Trump...

and voila, it's all a media misunderstanding.

He will pivot so fast you will never see it happen.

But seeing that shithead, if he ever gets elected he'd be looking this way for "living space". We'd be invaded before the first term was up.

In the latest Washington Post/ABC poll:

1. Donald Trump: 32% (unchanged since October)
2. Ben Carson: 22% (unchanged)
3. Marco Rubio: 11% (up one point)
4. Ted Cruz: 8% (up two points)
5. Jeb Bush: 6% (down one point)

The base loves this stuff. Unfortunately, a lot of Republicans are the rabid base. The RNC fears them, but they need them. What to do...what to do?

is every tea baggers wet dream. And knowing the tea baggers are taking over the party is twice as scary. Very good reason why they will never win the general though.

oh yes indeed

absolutely correct. this is who the republican party now is. there shall be no repudiation. these are their beliefs.

it would be to his danger to not spiral to ever greater depths.

(Paraphrasing Matt Lewis in The Daily Beast.)

The GOP was also captured by wealthy interests who allies with the GOP base by playing to its hostilities and made dismantling government regulations into a party religion.

In the process traditional conservatism has been destroyed, driven from the GOP. The right has lost its soul and its righteous function of protecting what is good and has worked well in the past. Personally, I'm wondering if the nation's drift toward fascism isn't an indicator that we really do need traditional conservatism. These were the people who wanted to work across the aisle with the Democrats for the good of the nation, but they are currently mostly lost to government.

America, however, has always been part Nazi.

It is who they are, name one time the took out one of their own, Sarah Palin, David Vitter, they never take down their own, they may just tepidly defend them, but never a take down.

Then they always point the finger and make false equivalency statements.

This is nothing new. Remember, the right flank of the party wanted to ally with Hitler against Stalin, proving that the American right is the second worst behind those in dictatorships.