Laughing at Trump was good for a while but it’s not so funny any more. How funny would you find it, as an american muslim or mexican (or better still immigrant)? Lots of people have isms but tend to keep them inside, until they feel they can get away with it and now you’ve got a presidential candidate bellowing intolerance from the rooftops, in the news, on the internet, and not everyone’s saying “lol, he’s nuts, look at his hair”. It’s bad juju.
And sure, this particular thing is about muslims. But look at how it’s fuelled general anti-immigration sentiment. And again the thing about isms is once you tell people it’s OK to be anti-islamic specifically, you’re also telling them that it’s OK to be intolerant generally.
Every time Trump’s come out with some “funny” comment about immigration or women or Barack Obama not being a proper american or whatever else, and we’ve lolled, it’s brought him closer to this. And ever time, some ****’s gone “You tell ’em Don!” then gone off and felt justified in being a **** to someone else.