Trump? Come on, Americans

Even among the looniest of Republican Presidential aspirants, Donald Trump stands out as unique. So of course he placed second in a national CNN poll,

with 12 percent of GOP primary voters saying they were most likely to support him in 2016. In fact, he outranked every other candidate in the crowded Republican field except former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who garnered 19 percent.

Trump. One of the loudest buffoons to emerge from American business in the late 20th century. A man who persisted in claiming the current President was not an American citizen long after that idiocy had been debunked. A man who just insulted an entire nation of Mexicans. A man who’s just had four or five of his corporate associates sever their ties with him because he was at best an embarrassment and at worst a drag on their businesses. Yet somehow a whole bunch of American voters think he’s just what the doctor ordered for the country.

I despair for our democracy.