On Sunday, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan spoke with Jason Stanley, a professor at Yale University and the author of “How Fascism Works,” and discussed Trump’s frightening Veterans Day rally speech, where he called his detractors “vermin” within our country that…

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      1 year ago

      No… no, he’s exactly as stupid as he appears. He’s just also a fascist.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, he’s not as dumb as the character he plays on TV, just like GW Bush. He just took it to another level.

      Not that I think he was secretly brilliant or that every one of his public mistakes are deliberate. He just understands his cult and they don’t want some genius leading them.