The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.
Trump in the past 24 hours:
- Continued to reap a hurricane of scorn from nearly everyone else in politics after suggesting for some reason that he might not actually deport all undocumented immigrants, which is the one promise that his most ardent supporters care the most about
- Tried out a new line of argument about how Hillary Clinton is racist (?)
- Hired one of Chris Christie’s disgraced Bridgegate goons as his national field director
- Saw his new campaign “chief executive” immediately exposed as having possibly committed felony voter fraud
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I don’t want to jinx anything, but I also have to call ‘em like I see ‘em: This is a death spiral. He’s throwing crap at the wall, and it’s not sticking, and the only people he can get to work for him are damaged goods and/or retreads. We’re about to have to create a danger level lower than a half a horse.
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