"....May Be The First Time We've Ever Sprung Forward And Marched Backwards At The Same Time...."

Time change last night.

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Donald Trump on Saturday called for protesters who disrupt his rallies to be arrested, one day after altercations and protests forced him to cancel a campaign rally in Chicago.

The comments capped a tumultuous day on the campaign trail in which a demonstrator rushed a stage where Trump was speaking. 

Trump also accused Bernie Sanders' supporters of sowing unrest at his events and the GOP front-runner refused to back down from his rhetoric that some have cited as the cause of heightened tension at his rallies.

Trump's call to arrest protesters came at a campaign event in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was repeatedly interrupted at the beginning of his address.

"I'm going to ask that you arrest them," Trump said to the police. "I'll file whatever charges you want. If they want to do this ... we're going to go strongly for your arrests."

Trump said arresting protesters would "ruin the rest of their lives" by giving them a "big arrest mark."

"Once that starts happening, we're not going to have any more protesters, folks," Trump said.

Of all the hot button fears that Trump's candidacy conjures up in folks who fear the candidacy, there is probably no more hot a button than his consistent, perpetual and, now, predictable pattern of promises to either win the game or move the goal posts wherever and whenever he needs to move them in order to win.

Winning is big with this guy.

Wait.

Make that winning is yuuuuge with this guy.

I have no way of knowing, but, I'd be willing to bet you the money in my pocket against the money in your pocket that Trump is a big, big fan of Vince Lombardi.

For those of you under the age of, say, thirty, uh, yeah, that's the guy they named after the Super Bowl trophy.

Vince, of course, once famously inspirationally offered "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

And in a sporting event or a spelling bee or even a pie eating contest, that mentality is all very All American well and good.

The slippery slope shows its slippery self when you start mixing the chocolate of winning with the peanut butter of freedom.

Those who are sincerely concerned about Trump's not so well hidden talent for tyranny, as well as those who simply just don't like the guy are keeping faith with the expectation (hope? wish?) that the more lucid, reasonable, educated in our midst who seriously back Trump will come to their senses and see this guy for who he really is and what he really represents before the voting places close on November 8 and it's too late.

This assumes, unfortunately, that those who seriously support Trump have any senses to come to in the first place.

And though that sounds like a cheap shot at people, it's not intended as one.

It's only intended, once again, as an illustration of how more than ever before frustrated, even angry, people are about the status quo and, in the haze of that hatred, how easy it is to be bewitched, bedazzled and besorzzled by a rakish, rogue rebel who represents everything they think they want in a rakish, rogue rebel.

And we're talking here about frustrated, angry, lucid, reasonable, educated people.

Not the riff raff in the wife beater undershirts with Old Glory on the back and Donald Be Da Man on the front.

There will always be flotsam and jetsam in the general population. One of the down sides to a genuinely free society.

And as to the bewitching and bedazzling and besorzzling, the inevitable allusion, or even outright comparison, to Hitler and his brand of bewitching and bedazzling have already been marched out and paraded around, as least the besorzzling that he brought in the beginning.

Of course, it's always in the beginning, isn't it?

But, we won't go there.

Instead, let's go here.

Trump's call to arrest protesters came at a campaign event in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was repeatedly interrupted at the beginning of his address.

"I'm going to ask that you arrest them," Trump said to the police. "I'll file whatever charges you want. If they want to do this ... we're going to go strongly for your arrests."

Trump said arresting protesters would "ruin the rest of their lives" by giving them a "big arrest mark."

"Once that starts happening, we're not going to have any more protesters, folks," Trump said.

For those who still don't get it when it comes to the danger of a Donald Trump presidency, re-read the last sentence of that story.

Now if you still can't understand, ask any history teacher, or any of your kids who read their history books, how many good things in the America you are so sure is doomed without Trump were created, occurred or came about as the result of protest.

Still don't quite get it?

Keep voting for the guy.

It'll come to you sooner.....later....or too late.

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