The Duce bellows like a wounded animal

I heard him live on MSNBC XM radio earlier.

He is as enraged as a wounded animal, maybe a wildebeest or water buffalo, and his bellows are enough to fill the African plane.

The election is rigged, the evil global elites are stealing it.

How?

The press is overwhelmingly against him and they are circulating a deluge of lying accusations of sexual misconduct against him.

Think about what he's actually saying.

If the press says bad things about you and some of them are false and you are losing in the polls then they are stealing the election from you.

Hmph.

So every elections is stolen, every time.

Right?

Trump says the election is rigged — and his supporters are furious

In Cincinnati a few days ago.

At a time when trust in government is at a low point, Trump is actively stoking fears that a core tenet of American democracy is also in peril: that you can trust what happens at the ballot box.

His supporters here said they plan to go to their local precincts to look for illegal immigrants who may attempt to vote. 

They are worried that Democrats will load up buses of minorities and take them to vote several times in different areas of the city. 

They’ve heard rumors that boxes of Clinton votes are already waiting somewhere.

And if Trump doesn’t win, some are even openly talking about violent rebellion and assassination, as fantastical and unhinged as that may seem.

“If she’s in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it,” Dan Bowman, a 50-year-old contractor, said of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. 

“We’re going to have a revolution and take them out of office if that’s what it takes. There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. But that’s what it’s going to take. . . . I would do whatever I can for my country.”

Are these the deplorables Hillary spoke of?

These people are fucking crazy.

No way around it.

Trump’s campaign has taken a sharp turn toward such dark warnings in recent days. 

He says he is a victim of conspiracies, portrays himself as a martyr to the cause of the right wing, and is stoking anger in advance of what may be a defeat on Nov. 8.

. . . .

Above all, Trump is now using the prospect of his loss to undermine faith in democratic institutions.

“It’s one big fix,’’ Trump said Friday afternoon in Greensboro, N.C. “This whole election is being rigged.’’

He saved some of his harshest criticism for the media, which he said is in league with Clinton to steal the election.

“The media is indeed sick, and it’s making our country sick, and we’re going to stop it,” he said.

Pause for a moment to recall the very similar rhetoric of Bernie Sanders and his surrogates during the primary season, and the fury of his supporters against "the rigged system."