March 20, 2016 10:39 AM UTC

Confirmed: Trump Can Say Any Damn Thing He Wants

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• by: Colorado Pols

Politico reports on GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s remarks at a rally in Salt Lake City Friday night:

“Are you sure he’s a Mormon? Are we sure?” he asked a supportive crowd. Romney, just hours earlier, had indicated he’d be casting a vote for Ted Cruz in Utah’s caucuses Tuesday. [Pols emphasis]

Trump’s broadside was the latest and most direct in a trend of questioning his opponents’ religion. He previously wondered about Ben Carson’s Seventh Day Adventist faith and suggested that Ted Cruz is unlikely to be a true evangelical because he hails from Cuba. And as he lavished praise on Utah’s Mormon population, he wondered whether Romney was fit to be counted among them.

“And do I love the Mormons. OK? Do I love the Mormons?” he bellowed from a podium.

Now folks, we can tell you that this kind of an attack against Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith is a truly shocking thing to witness taking place in Salt Lake City by a non-Mormon, based on everything we know about the Latter Day Saints and their protectiveness of their own. Mitt Romney in particular is very highly regarded in the Salt Lake Valley, widely credited as the man who “saved” the 2002 Winter Olympic Games from mismanaged disaster–a watershed event that put the Wasatch Front on the global map to stay after the Games were heralded as a huge success.

Anyway, if Donald Trump can show up in Salt Lake City to badmouth Mitt Romney as a Mormon and not be immediately run out of town, we’ve come to a point in American culture where, without any hyperbole, anybody can truly say anything and nothing means anything anymore. Not only is nothing sacred, casting our pearls before swine–to employ the Biblical analogy–is now the order of the day.

And whatever your politics may be, that should be disconcerting.