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.
OK, so last week Donald Trump and his surrogates made a big deal out of saying he might be changing his tone on immigration to the point of possibly even letting undocumented immigrants stay here if they are gainfully employed and have established families and haven’t committed any crimes. (Can you imagine???) It was a whole thing; Slate politics staffers spent a half-hour yesterday arguing over the question of whether he’d gain more moderate support by flip-flopping on deportation than he lost among conservatives/white jerks.
Then he got on stage in Phoenix last night and gave a speech that was just as vicious and hard-line as anything else he’s said since he started campaigning. Trump basically spent the past 10 days of news cycles creating anticipation for an announcement that he wants to continue to be widely perceived as a racist. Our danger level is going back down.
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