How Far Would He Go?

At this point, is anything beyond the pale for this MFer?

As many observers have noted, Donald Trump is seeming extra unhinged of late, which is really saying something. He is slurring his words at rallies, going off on pointless, incoherent tangents (#theweave), slandering Kamala Harris as “mentally disabled” (every accusation is a confession, innit, Donny?), and claiming that Joe Biden is withholding hurricane aid even as Republican governors bluntly report the opposite. He has called for a day-long Purge in which cops can run riot, suggested that critics of the Supreme Court be summarily imprisoned, brought a 9/11 truther to a memorial at Ground Zero, and stood by a gubernatorial candidate who called himself a “Black Nazi,” all the while painting a totally false portrait of America as a crime-ridden hellscape in economic freefall (quick factcheck: crime is down and the economy is booming). And of course, as we noted two weeks ago, he continues to insist that Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating housepets.

And that is but a small sample of Don’s oeuvre. A full accounting would require a David Foster Wallace-length tome.

And yet, if the polls are to be believed, this hideous excuse for a human being remains within a froghair of becoming President of the United States for a second time.