During this election cycle, one of Donald Trump's most vocal supporters has been Dilbert creator Scott Adams. The cartoonist has justified his support for Trump with such reasoning as "To my untrained eyes and ears, Hillary Clinton doesn’t look sufficiently healthy—mentally or otherwise—to be leading the country." Or this...uh...interesting take on Trump:
Now Adams is doubling down on his Trump support with a blog post called "The Crook Versus the Monster," in which he claims that the reason Clinton is winning is because she and her team have successfully spun facts to make Donald Trump look like a monster. He goes so far as to characterize some of Trump's worst moments like this:
THOSE THINGS WEREN'T "TURNED INTO SOMETHING RACIST." THEY WERE RACIST. And "the way he worded it" made them racist statements. Here's how Trump explained the need for the wall:
It wasn't spun into sounding racist. That is saying that the majority of immigrants coming from Mexico are criminals and rapists, which is just a racist thing to claim. Those are statements that didn't need to be "turned into" monstrous things. They just were monstrous. I'm speechless in the face of such intellectual dishonesty.
But Scott Adams believes the idea that Trump is dangerous is overblown. I'd point out that's an easy thing for a white man to say as Trump's dangerous language is mostly targeted at people of color and women, but I don't want to dwell on this because the real gem is still to come. Highlight ours:
If a politician walks like a fascist, talks like a fascist, and appeals to fascists, the solution is to not elect that person. It's not to tell people that you think he's not really a fascist and even if he is, it's not a big deal because if he turns out to be one, you'll help kill him. The lengths that some people will go to justify not voting for Hillary Clinton—a candidate with her own problems, certainly, but at least the potential to become Hitler isn't one of them—are astounding.