You’ve seen Donald Trump supporters speak, in so many ways. To pick a single example at random, when one called for a public lynching of a black protestor. Or remember this woman who would throw a spear into your chest if Donald Trump ordered it? But there is a segment of America who has not yet been given a national platform to advertise their pathetic delusion: Ted Cruz supporters.

Thankfully, as The Daily Beast’s Andrew Kirell pointed out on Twitter today, some folks from CSPAN—the only network that allows you to ask a sitting representative if you can shit in his mouth—recently went to a Ted Cruz rally in Mechanicsville, Va., proving that there is very little difference between the two. He calls our attention to a clip of a woman who says that Obama has banned Santa Claus from schools because it offends Muslims:

You should watch the entire thing here. My favorite is the guy who baits the CSPAN host into asking why he fled liberal northern Virginia only to say that it was because of the traffic, but they’re all superstars, from the spritely young teenager at the beginning on down to the man in the fedora who says that America needs a president who is “of godly character but also warlike” (Ted Cruz).

One way to look at the current race for the Republican nomination for president is that it’s Donald Trump versus everyone else. Another way to look at it is that it’s Donald Trump and Ted Cruz versus everyone else.

This is partly because Cruz’s poll numbers have risen sharply over the last month or so: He is now in second place nationally and leading in Iowa. But it’s also because Trump and Cruz are running on more or less the same platform: fuck immigrants, murder ISIS, and flop America’s dick all over the world. If Donald Trump or Ted Cruz died of congestive heart failure tomorrow, all of the dead guy’s supporters would immediately flock to the other one. When one of them eventually drops out of the race, that will happen anyway, because they’re all one group of people in search of the same salvation.


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