Today in Tabs: The Worst Are Full Of Passionate Intensity

The blood-dimmed tide is looser, at least.

As you surely know by now, Donald Trump, losing ground to the more mainstream-plausible but no less crazy Ted Cruz in Iowa, said something stupid to regain control of the news cycle, and everyone went along with it. And here I am doing the same. Trump said he wants to ban all Muslims from entering the country (including, he clarified, American citizens who happen to be abroad), which is obviously absurd, impossible, and wildly unconstitutional. It's not a real proposal, any more than his followup suggestion that he would get Bill Gates to "clos[e] that internet up in some ways." Or if he had said that he wants to make his pal Tom Brady King of the Moon, or replace Mexican day laborers with the Wee Fairy Folk. These ideas all exist in a big stupid heap at the far right end of the policygibberish spectrum.