Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “no longer thinks” her Republican rival Donald Trump is funny.
“He’s gone way over the line,” Clinton said on a Thursday night interview on “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” The real estate magnate proposed a ban on Muslims entering the country on Monday.
Trump is giving terrorists a “great propaganda tool,” she said.
“What he’s saying now is not only shameful but wrong. They’re dangerous,” Clinton said.
Watch the clip, from NBC, below:
This kind of criticism (although true) does not dissuade his followers. What does work is to criticize his business smarts. The more people know about Trump’s many failed business deals–the lost lawsuits, the bankruptcies–the less they like his other opinions.
Was he ever funny?
NBC has late night programming? I didn’t know…
I think his followers are pretty immune to any criticisms of Trump at this point. They are committed (and should be in the other meaning of the word).
What this does, is start to lay the ground work for potentially reaching some of the more “moderate” republicans to switch sides. Even people that don’t like Hillary, are already seeing her as the person best able to deal with the world for our country right now. She is seen as tough and reasonable. This just helps underline that.
No one is trying to dissuade his followers. Everyone, at this point even Republicans, recognize that that’s futile. It’s all about getting passive supporters off their asses and getting anyone who might suffer extreme butthurt if, say, their preferred candidate doesn’t win the Democratic primary, looking at the larger picture. And, of course, above all, making a stab at getting some of the five percent who are insufficiently civic minded to pay any goddamn attention between campaign seasons but too civic minded to not vote thinking, for that five percent decides all close presidential elections in this nation.