The Donald Trump 2016 Fever Dream White House Campaign Experience is a bizarre experiment in hybrid politicking. His approach to tackling policy issues is to either directly challenge core Republican and conservative beliefs, or indulge and pander to the ugliest desires of the party’s base. On the one hand, he’ll buck GOP orthodoxy and call for an increasingly progressive tax system that prioritizes fairness. On the other, he’ll promise to evict every undocumented immigrant from the country and tell a bigoted supporter that, as president, he’ll investigate the problems caused by Muslims living in America.

Trump’s no dope. He knows which issues will generate the most heat and cause the most controversy, and those are the issues he’ll pander to the hardest. So it makes sense that the “policy paper” he just released on guns embraces some of the worst, most extreme fantasies of the crazy pro-gun right.