{"id":77426,"date":"2015-10-21T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77426"},"modified":"2015-10-21T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T02:00:14","slug":"is-ann-coulter-donald-trumps-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77426","title":{"rendered":"Is Ann Coulter Donald Trump’s Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roland Dodds writes<\/a>: Then in walked Donald Trump. He wasn\u2019t content to say immigration was bad for America or the economy, but framed it as a plot by criminal groups and governments to infiltrate America and undermine its institutions and society. When Trump said he wanted to \u201cmake America great again,\u201d it wasn\u2019t hard to decipher which group of people he felt made the nation weaker to begin with.<\/p>\n

While Trump reminds us ad nauseam of his superior intellect<\/a>, I would wager he has not thought long and hard about his current crop of positions. Anti-immigration rhetoric is nothing new on the right; a slew of prominent sites like American Renaissance<\/a> and VDare<\/a> have spent the last few decades beating this very drum. But these sites have a limited appeal beyond their immediate base of readers, and I doubt Trump would have spent late nights poring through articles disparaging immigration and migrants. These ideas needed a simplified, media-savvy repackaging Trump could proclaim and refashion for use in a political campaign. Trump unquestionably knew Ann Coulter, and her new book was just the kind of text Trump could use as the philosophical core of his campaign.<\/p>\n

This theory is more than simple conjecture. Coulter recently opened for Trump at an event in Iowa, asserting themes about Mexicans that even the Donald wouldn\u2019t mention.<\/p>\n