The smartest wingnut?
by digby
I’d say so.
He is the scariest of them all. He’s the true believer. And it’s correct that he never gets personal which is odd — and may just be the reason he won’t win. Republican voters really prefer it to get personal. In fact, as the Trump phenomenon proves, they don’t really care about much of anything other than pandering dumbly to them, hating on the “enemy” and bragging about themselves.
On the other hand, he might have done himself some good with GOP voters who really are purely ideological but haven’t seriously tuned in yet. He is as ideological as they come.
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