The latest people to be verbally lambasted by GOP presidential candidate and billionaire Donald Trump are the parents of Army Captain Humayan Kahn, a Muslim-American soldier who had died in battle in Iraq. Khizer and Ghazala Kahn had spoken out against Trump's proposals to ban Muslims at the Democratic Convention. Not knowing or caring that it isn't appropriate to single out private citizens, especially Gold Star parents, to harass on Twitter, Trump suggested that Khizer's wife was being forced to remain silent because of oppressive Muslim tradition, when in fact she was too grieved for her son to speak. This gaffe cost Trump some votes and rightly so-if this is how he behaves as a candidate, what would he do with real power? He has dropped some hints, here and there: Trump has openly asked why if we have nukes we don't use them, he has stated that he would reinstate torture and waterboarding, that he would work around those pesky Geneva Conventions, and has enjoyed a perverse sort of mutual admiration with the ruthless Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin, a man who is apparently too powerful to convict of his crimes which include assassinating political dissidents. 40% of Americans seem to be willing to shrug all of this off, which is altogether more disturbing than anything Trump has said or done this election season.