Trump's Bad Ideas Aren't Un-American After All

"Deportations to Begin... Riots Continue," read one headline, riffing on the candidate's call to staffup immigration officers and deport all undocumented workers. "U.S. Soldiers Refuse Orders to Kill ISIS Families" read another reference to a real proposal by the GOP front-runner. It's easy enough to credit the Globe's intention, which editors said was to show that [Donald Trump]'s "vision for the future of our nation is as deeply disturbing as it is profoundly un-American." The trouble is, many of these hypothetical future nightmares are very much of the present - if in a lesser or more polite form. For instance, media blanched at Trump's claim that there should be "some form of punishment" for women who have abortions. A New York Times writer called the remarks "incoherent" while other pundits identified them as a key factor in Trump's Wisconsin loss.