Trump, Farrakhan speak language of the pitchfork

Why Donald Trump bothered to issue an economic program is beyond me. It has some good things in it, like raising the tax on carried interest, but no one really cares about Trump’s economic plan -- no matter his supposed expertise. He says he’s a businessman who knows about such things. His supporters don’t care that he’s a builder. They care that he’s a destroyer.

The impetus for the Trump campaign is Barack Obama. He represents an historic, even cataclysmic, change in American political life and, for some, what America is supposed to be about. One of the first to declare that something had gone awfully wrong was Trump himself. Way before he became a presidential candidate, he pronounced himself a birther. Barack Obama was not born in the United States, Trump said -- and he would prove it.