Pierce: Trump "has stopped flirting with fascism and is now taking it out to dinner and a show"

[phantom power]

Presidential candidate Donald Trump said Friday during a rally in Texas that he wants to "open up our libel laws so when [reporters] write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money." The GOP frontrunner suggested that when he becomes president, places like The New York Times and The Washington Post, "the most dishonest media outlets I've ever seen in my life," will pay for their unfavorable coverage of his campaign. He continued, "I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I've ever met. They're terrible." Once he's able to rectify the issue of "horrible" media coverage, he said, "When The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit-piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected."

I'm sure that the rest of the "constitutional conservatives" who spent Thursday night in a silly pissing match over who was the most conservative conservative of all will leap to the microphone to point out that the current Republican frontrunner now has stopped flirting with fascism and is now taking it out to dinner and a show. He's done everything at his rallies short of turning the crowd loose on the press pen, and I guarantee you that's coming if he starts to slide. Hey, Ted? Marco? The actual Constitution awaits your defense.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a42501/trump-first-amendment-new-york-times/

[seaotter]

1. He'll have her in bed before Tuesday.

[Paladin]

2. I love me some Charlie Pierce.

But I worry about his safety and the safety of those like him, if Trump attains power. Yet another sign of just how fucked we are as a nation at this point in time.

[malthaussen]

3. Lissen, he can nail Fascism any time, amirite?

Right after he's through with Princess Di.

-- Mal

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Fucker stole my line.

Thats okay, Chuck. People do it all the time.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7636673

[dimple]

5. Has anybody said yet that Trump is a parody of FDR?

If they have, then I agree that's what he is.