The strange nexus between the GOP, Trump and outrageous conspiracy theories

Rachel Maddow covered this last night in her show but I also have been thinking about it.

-- Trump is easily the GOP front-runner

-- Trump has engaged in scary, serious anti-Muslim rhetoric over terrorism

-- Trump gave an interview to Alex Jones this past week

-- Jones said 90% of his followers support Trump; Trump is clearly courting the Jones crowd as well.

-- Jones routinely runs stories about government sponsored false-flags terror incidents and scares people that these are run so the government can pass hard gun control laws and/or take away guns from Americans, in order to enact martial law. For instance, Jones has speculated that the Sandy Hook shootings were a hoax.

-- the Muslim family of the San Bernardino massacre suspect hired a lawyer who is a Sandy Hook truther

So we have this weird disconnect between people who think terror attacks/shootings are a govt hoax, and people who are afraid of Islamic terror, and Trump and Jones are straddling this line.

The bottom line is that the GOP is now the crazy conspiracy party, no exaggeration at all.