"That's not exactly a ringing endorsement of his supporters' intelligence or ability to reason. It's pretty insulting, in fact."

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COMMENTS:
*  Trump supporters are immune to your logic. None of that will bring him down. Exactly how many articles about bringing down Trump will there be before the "political analysts" figure out that their "analysis" is irrelevant?
*  Aside from his meaningless slogan "Make America Great Again," everything Trump talks about is 'I' and 'me'. His 'campaign' is ego and vanity. Nothing more. People want reality TV and he's giving them that. He's also giving them validation for their racism, bigotry and irrational fear and that's where the danger comes in. His supporters can't or don't want to see past the facade. Their just happy there's an unshackled id up on stage saying anything and everything and they're gonna cheer right along. ......I doubt this was Trump's plan at the start, but he's going to surf this wave until it crashes. The question is, how much beachfront property does he take out when it does?
*  Trump is correct, his insult of his supporters just goes over their heads. Does't say much for the people that support him does it?
*  I have no idea what Trump stand for and specifically what he will do to "Make America Great Again". Lower unemployment? cut government - what. There is no there there.
*  Trump's supporters are barely High School educated, blue-collar, white, rapidly aging men, many with their jobs shipped off-shore and they are mad as he|| about it. His largest support comes from a swath of states from the deep South up to New York that are historically racist. They don't hold Trump responsible for anything he says and so will not realize they are the target of his disdain. They will vote for him anyway.
*  Mr Trump, in my opinion, does not have the right stuff to lead the USA into the future. Put him beside Reagan, Lincoln, Adams and tell me what you see. Mr. Trump should take to heart the words of Emily Dickinson, " Tell the Truth, but tell it slant, or every man be blind". I want to be proud of our highest elective official and I can't say that about Mr. Trump. At my age of 68, I realize that you can't solve problems or be a great leader with just slings and arrows. Americans are mad, really mad with our current politics but, in my opinion, jumping from the frying pan into the fire solves nothing. If his ideas came across with dignity and fire, but with an intelligent and educated speaking voice, I would listen to him.
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Here's What Could Finally Bring Down Trump
By Andy Ostroy, January 25, 2016

Donald Trump likes to call people "stupid." Whether he's referring to President Obama, Congressional leaders, the media or his opponents, the Republican front-runner has so far delighted his supporters these past eight months with an unprecedented flurry of demeaning ad-hominem attacks and inflammatory rhetoric.

But now he's calling these very same supporters stupid, claiming there's nothing he can do to lose their backing, not even if he committed a horrific act of violence.

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, okay, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?" Trump said at a rally over the weekend in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible."

Well, Trump's narcissism is, like, incredible, okay? Think for a minute about what he said, and perhaps the underlying disdain for his supporters. His ego is so gargantuan, his rapacious Id so deprived, he's convinced himself that he's so important and desirable that he could literally kill someone without political cost. The level of "they'll-love-me-no-matter-what" presumption here is astounding.

That's not exactly a ringing endorsement of his supporters' intelligence or ability to reason. It's pretty insulting, in fact. That Trump thinks his "fans" are mindless morons who will blindly follow their Pied Piper like rats into the drowning pool is quite telling. But will they care? Will they finally turn all their "anger" on him? Will this insult -- one that's aimed squarely at them instead of one of the bloviating billionaire's enemies -- be the long overdue final straw that brings down this vulgar house of cards?

It's one thing to sit at a rally and be entertained by a modern-day Morton Downey Jr. as he mercilessly rips into his opponents. It's quite another to be the target of his contempt.
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