Donald Trump needs help. Not just help with all
those pesky policy details that he can’t seem to master; not even help with a
coherent political strategy for winning in November. He needs psychological
help and he needs it now.
His unhinged reaction to the Orlando mass
murders sends a clear message to his party and to voters in general: this
presidential thing isn’t working out well for him or the nation.
At first, it was all too easy to dismiss his
histrionics. His conspiracy theories about President Obama’s birth certificate
were just a desperate cry for attention: an appeal to the fringes that made him
the butt of all jokes.
Then, after he gained political traction, the
conventional wisdom was that the hype was just one big theatrical act: a
marketing wheeze that would end with defeat in the crowded Republican
primaries.
But of course the wild accusations, irrational
behavior and self-engrossed eruptions didn’t end there. Now, at a time of
national mourning, the Republican presidential nominee has accused the 44th
president of the United States of sympathizing with terrorists.
“He doesn’t get it, or he gets it better than
anybody understands. It’s one or the other,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s
morning show.
“We’re led by a man that either is not tough,
not smart or he’s got something else in mind,” he added, for good measure. “And
the something else in mind, you know, people can’t believe it. People cannot –
they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can’t
even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism. There’s something going on.
It’s inconceivable.''
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