During the October 9 debate, Donald Trump threatened to jail his political opponent should he be elected president.

This is of course ordinary, unremarkable rhetoric coming from a Republican presidential candidate. You, dear reader, will no doubt remember that John McCain and Mitt Romney both threatened to jail Barack Obama. Oh yes they did. I can’t manage to find links to the Youtube videos that show this, but it did happen. Same thing with George W. Bush: he threatened to jail Al Gore and John Kerry. And so on. I’m not exactly sure when GOP presidential candidates started issuing threats like this, but the tradition definitely goes back at least as far as 1940, when FDR ran for his third term against Wendell Willkie, who like Trump was a New York City based businessman.

The idea that Trump is somehow unusual is ridiculous.

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