I appreciate that conspiracy theories are hardly the preserve of the mentally stable, but I am becoming more and more convinced that Donald trump is a democrat plant whose mission is to destroy the Republican Party.
I'm not the only one.
One Republican state legislator in Florida doesn't think 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump is a legitimate GOP candidate and has stated more than once that Trump is a "phantom candidate." Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Miami) explained his reasoning by claiming Trump possibly could be a plot devised by the Democrats to make the GOP look bad.
Republican State senators tend to be right about things like this, so I'm feeling pretty confident.
Unfortunately, Curbelo seems to be the only other person to have seen through this.
Let's look at the evidence though.
1. Trump is good friends with the Clintons. As Curbelo notes, they were at his last wedding. Ok, statistically there's a good chance we'll all end up at one of his weddings eventually, but Trump has contributed a lot to the Clinton Foundation. The Clintons won't say a bad word about him.
2. In a 2004 interview with wolf Blitzer
BLITZER: Do you identify more as a Democrat or Republican?
TRUMP: Well, you'd be shocked if I said that in many cases I probably identify more as Democrat. And I think you'd probably be shocked...
BLITZER: On social issues?
TRUMP: You know, it's interesting, I've been now around long -- you know, I think of myself as a young guy, but I'm not so young anymore. And I've been around for a long time. And it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats...
if you read the rest of that interview, or any others from a while back, Trump comes across very differently. Maybe he has become a bloviating nutjob in recent years, or maybe its an act.
3. The democrats Achilles heel in this election was likely to be the Latin vote. Bush, Rubio (and unbelievably but true) Ted (o Canada) Cruz all have election strategies based on capturing the Latin vote. This has been somewhat undermined by Trump's rapist comments.
If you think he's caused havoc so far, wait until the debates start. As soon as he says something wildly offensive, the other people on the stage will have to make an immediate decision whether to alienate Trump's supporters by condemning his comments.
Genius.