(Salon) — Between Bill O’Reilly and Sarah Palin, Tuesday night’s Fox News lineup perfectly captured the sheer ludicrousness of Donald Trump’s recent unconstitutional and completely impractical panders to the GOP’s racist, anti-immigrant fringe.
Let’s begin with Bill O’Reilly, who interviewed Trump about his farcical immigration plan, involving the deportation of all 12-plus million undocumented workers and their children en masse, in spite of the 14th Amendment, which grants birthright citizenship to anyone born inside the United States.
Every once in a while, O’Reilly’s crazy software crashes and, in its place, Reasonable Bill emerges. It is both refreshing and a little shocking. Said Reasonable Bill to Trump: