The escalating series of confrontations at Donald Trump’s rallies in recent days reveals a political campaign that has morphed from one featuring a bigoted, hate-spewing, violence-threatening individual to one of supporters heeding his rhetoric and acting upon that hate and violence unprecedented in modern American political campaigns.
Following a weekend filled with violence in and around Trump rallies, it is clear that with Trump and his supporters, it has become very much a matter of monkey see, monkey do.
Trump says he wants to punch a protester in the face; a supporter punches a protester in the face. Trump says a protester is a member of ISIS; a man of Indian descent is yelled racial slurs, called a member of ISIS and told to go back to Iraq. He later gets arrested amid a scuffle, and it turns out the man, Sopan Deb, is a CBS News reporter covering the rally.
