Iowa Republicans like it when Trump goes full Nazi
A new poll from The Des Moines Register and NBC News shows that Trump’s use of phrases lifted straight from the writings of Adolf Hitler isn’t hurting him with Republican caucusgoers. Instead, a plurality of those Iowans say that Trump calling his opponents “vermin” and saying that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America makes them more likely to give him their vote.
In the poll results, 42% of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers reported that Trump’s claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” makes them more likely to support him. Another 29% said the statement didn’t make a difference to them, leaving only 28% saying that they were less inclined to vote for Trump after he repeated terminology Hitler used to defend antisemitic policies.
Trump did even better with his statement about “the radical left thugs that live like vermin” in the United States and how they need to be “rooted out.” That bit of Nazi rhetoric drew a 43% favorable response from Iowa Republicans. The statement made no difference for 32%. Only 23%—less than a quarter of prospective caucusgoers—said calling fellow Americans vermin who needed to be rooted out made them less inclined to support Trump.
It seems as if the phrase “Iowa nice” needs to be changed to include a different, more Teutonic word beginning with N. Because these guys can’t wait to get more of these hate-filled rants. And Trump can’t wait to fill that need.