Republican/ New Confederate/ Stupid Party front runner (except in hayshaker country) Donald "Rump" Trump has ludicrously self- styled himself as a "uniter," despite his manifestly racist, Islamophobic, nativist campaign. Now the "Great Uniter" is turning to the religious beliefs of his closest rival, comparing his church to that of Dr. Ben "On Meds?" Carson (a.k.a., The Scariest Republican Crackpot ) this past Saturday:
"I'm Presbyterian, he said. "Boy, that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don't know about. I just don't know about."If we thought Carson was capable of subtle thought, we might wonder if he could see in retrospect how his comments about Muslims were of the same intolerant nature as Rump's comments about his own Seventh-day Adventist religion. But, nah!
There are over 1.2 million Americans (over 18 million world-wide) who are Seventh-day Adventists. There are 2.6 million Muslim Americans. There are 52 million Hispanic Americans. As much as Rump and his cretinous followers =cough= the Republican base =cough= would like, those Americans are not going away. And we don't think they look upon Rump as a "uniter."
BONUS: He's also salt of the earth, a Horatio Alger of our times. (h/t Grung_e_Gene)