This guy has stopped being funny. He leans too much toward violence for me. It’s not just this incident in which he approves of his supporters beating up a protester; Think Progress lists a few more in this post. There’s also his advocacy of war, his plan to “bomb the hell out of ISIS” and the idiotic idea of a wall along the Mexican border.

There’s his suggestion that all Americans who practice Islam be forced to register in some kind of Homeland Security database, his plan to deport 11 million immigrants without immigration court hearings, and his idiotic handwaving cure for everything that ails us: management, as in “it’s all about management, our country has no management…”. In that instance he was talking about getting Americans of Muslim faith to register in one of those databases (but no badges! None of that stuff reminiscent of Nazi Germany! Nosiree!), but he’s often used the all-encompassing “management” as shorthand for policy answers he doesn’t have.

He’s not fading away, either.

Trump leads Carson 32% to 22%, in a new poll by The Washington Post and ABC News [between November 16-19].

And the real estate mogul leads the retired neurosurgeon 28% to 18% in a new Fox News poll.

The two are trailed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

In the Washington Post/ABC News poll, Rubio is in third at 11%, followed by Cruz at 8%, Bush at 6% and former tech CEO Carly Fiorina at 4%. In the Fox News poll, Rubio and Cruz are tied at 14% and Bush has 5%.

I’m getting a little worried about this. Iowa’s caucuses are less than three months away in February; New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina all hold primaries or caucuses that month too. If Trump wins any of those he’s liable to stir up a bandwagon. I can’t imagine why people would vote for the blow-dried blowhard, but they might.