Now I'm 100 Percent Convinced--Trump Doesn't Want To Be President

There's no other logical way to explain him saying this:

The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families.

Trump issued this nugget in a Wednesday morning appearance on, what else, Fox & Friends. I don't think I need to explain why this idea is--to quote Professor Dumbledore--"beyond the realms of what we might call 'usual evil.'"

There's no way Trump ever imagined he'd still be the frontrunner at this point, relatively close to actual votes being cast. To be sure, he has spouted other outrageous things since entering the race, but this is the one that finally convinced me that he doesn't want to be president. As Trump's statements have grown excessively more radical, this idea has grown more plausible in my mind. I imagine him sitting in the back of his limo, thinking to himself: What the hell do I have to say to make these idiots NOT support me?

If saying that as president he'd issue the order to murder people who have committed no crime--actions that any sane person can see would only increase support for ISIS and for anti-U.S. terrorism--won't turn Republican voters against Trump, then what will? Does he have to say he'd cut out the heart of an infant Syrian refugee and eat it on live television? Would he actually have to do it? In terms of sheer depravity, there's not a whole lot of room left between that and what he said today.

More important than whether he's actually trying to sabotage himself by espousing this kind of rhetoric is whether there are enough Republican voters out there who will let him.

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