Donald Trump has once again deployed an asinine attack against his detractors — one that was formerly a staple of Democratic rhetoric and doesn’t get any sharper when it comes out of Republican mouths. But we’re in the incandescent heat of the final days of a general election, and spectators to it demand partisan superlatives. Nothing can simply be stupid. It must be dangerous, inciting, and a reflection not just of the rottenness of the candidate’s soul but of the malignancy of his movement and all its works.
That’s roughly how Democratic loyalists responded to Trump’s latest jab at his most vociferous Republican critic, Liz Cheney. She is “a very dumb individual, very dumb,” Trump said. More to the point, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there, with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it — you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
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