Democrats Must Do What the GOP Won’t in Battling Trump’s Racism

It’s almost like Donald Trump is intentionally saying outrageous things to throw this election. And yet, the crazier he talks, the more it seems to work.

Within the Republican Party, particularly, Trump’s downright scary rhetoric is either dismissed as mere eccentricity or even considered a virtue; regardless, it’s all proof he’s not a normal politician.

In a new Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa poll of Iowa voters, for example, Trump’s recent comments about illegal immigrants “poisoning the blood” of America made 42 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers more likely to vote for him (compared with just 28 percent who said it made them less likely to vote for him). Meanwhile, a whopping 47 percent of Republicans said the 2020 election “fraud” justifies terminating parts of the Constitution.

Read more at The Daily Beast.