Every idiot's favourite presidential candidate knows his electorate and knows it well. Even his latest pronouncement on the banning of Muslim immigration was carefully calculated to appeal to the lowest common denominator amongst the American people- and it worked. Riding on the crest of a wave of paranoia following the killings in San Berdoo, he knows his bigoted words will have struck a chord with thousands or even millions of American voters.
That's how they do it. Hitler came to power on a platform which, inter alia, exploited first the seething resentment among ordinary Germans over their grossly unfair treatment after WWI, and second, the encouragement of underlying racism against the old fall-guys- the Jews. As history attests, it was a highly successful ploy, and Trump is hoping the same tactic will work for him next November. Please God it won't.
Should he be barred from entry into the UK though, as more than 100,00 petitioners have demanded? My answer is no. Let him come over here, if he really wants to (which I doubt) and enter into debate with us. He'll go away with a flea in his ear, and then blame us all for being terrorist sympathisers, or whatever. But it will have been worth it, for him at least. Never underestimate the anti-British feeling that lurks just beneath the surface of your average Yank.
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