Hallelujah, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has finally found his niche in the 2016 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. He’s going to be the political equivalent of the guy on the street corner waving a sign and hollering at passersby that the devil is near and they must all repent before we find out the Book of Revelation is nonfiction.
OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but not by much. Read this screed by Jindal and ask yourself if it is the most unhinged editorial written by a Republican candidate for president in the 2016 cycle. It certainly has to be near the top of any list. After an opening paragraph imagining the dark future where President Trump is starring in “Celebrity Apprentice: The White House,” Jindal goes into the apocalyptic language. The Obama administration has pushed America “to the edge of a socialist abyss!” Trump is a “madman who must be stopped!” I half-expected an embedded video of the mushroom-cloud montage from the end of “Dr. Strangelove” to pop up at any moment.