What's scary is his support, even on this site. I get it, I really do. There's something alluring about, for a lack of a better term, the "high energy" over at /r/The_donald and I'm sure it's fun to call people cucks. But Trump is dangerous.

He's anti-science

On climate change:

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

and

NBC News just called it the great freeze - coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?

He's also a well documented anti-vaxxer:

I am being proven right about massive vaccinations—the doctors lied. Save our children & their future.

And in 2014 he was spouting the dangers of accepting flights from countries with Ebola victims, which ultimately turned out to be false. He went as far as to say we shouldn't even allow infected Americans back into the country:

The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!

Not only is he anti-science, he's simply anti-fact. As of last summer he still doubts Obama was born in the US, though he's yet to reveal his team's unbelievable findings about the issue from 2011. The American people deserve to know.

But this all begs the question, if he's not forming his opinions based on science and fact, how is he forming them?

He's not a moderate

I've heard countless times that "Trump is actually a moderate" and "have you actually listened to his stances?" Well I have, and they're extreme.

His supporters point to the fact that Trump has publicly defended Planned Parenthood on multiple occasions, even claiming it helps "millions of millions of women". That's great, but he still intends to defund it because they provide abortions and he's super pro-life since 2011.

He's also said he won't have Americans dying on the street, which is apparently a moderate sentiment these days, but his healthcare plan does not address how he'd do this. In fact, studies show that his plan would leave 21 million people uninsured.

And then, of course, the idea of straight up deporting 11 million Mexicans is, at the very least, radical.

He would be a disaster for foreign policy/relations

Well, I suppose it's hard to write about Trump's foreign policy since he's contradicted himself so many times.

But first, people like the fact he criticized the Iraq War, which he claims to have always opposed. Except for the fact that he supported it in 2002.

Then there's his current positions. He wants to "bomb the shit out of ISIS" and deploy 20,000 to 30,000 combat troops in the Middle East to fight them, so basically start another war. If this is news to you I understand, as he previously advocated for staying out of Syria.

Then of course there's his infamous ban on Muslims. That was also a flip flop. He initially said the US had to take Syrian migrants. But lets assume his most recent stance, of banning people from a certain religion coming to America, is his actual belief. It received international condemnation, including from Israeli President Netanyahu

Speaking of Israel, Trump is both pro-israel and wants to remain neutral in the conflict.

Also, Trump's reputation and inflammatory language will undoubtedly hurt America's image abroad.

In The UK, a petition featuring over half a million signatures prompted Parliment to debate banning Doland Trump from entering the country. British Prime Minister David Cameron said of Trump "If he came to visit our country, I think he would unite us all against him." Other MPS labeled him a buffoon, demagogue and wazzock. This is one of America's closest allies.

Also, China has been using Trump as proof that democracy doesn't work

Speaking of China, Trump has advocated a huge 45% tariff on Chinese goods. He later denied this, despite a recorded evidence of his remarks

And maybe if his behaivour doesn't alienate America, his promotion of war crimes surely will. On targeting terrorists:

The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families

And torture:

"I'd bring back waterboarding," Trump said during a February 7 debate. "And I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding."

Trump wants to be a dictator

When former National Security Agency and CIA director Michael Hayden said that the U.S. military might refuse orders to commit the aforementioned war crimes, Trump responded by claiming:

>“They won’t refuse. They’re not going to refuse me,” he said. “If I say do it, they’re going to do it.”

He's also made some troubling remarks about free speech. On the internet:

"We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people."

And on freedom of the press:

We're going to open up those libel laws so when The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when the Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected," he said. "We're going to open up libel laws and we're going to have people sue you like you've never got sued before."

He doesn't "tell it like it is"

Trump has lied. Trump has flip flopped. There's no way to reconcile those facts with the narrative that he "tells it like it is." How is he better than any other politician just because he hasn't held office?

And I know many dismiss Trump's more outlandish statements as "campaign rhetoric" or a "negotiation tactic", but how can one possibly tell the difference? If everything you agree with Trump on is his actual beliefs, and everything else is a lie, then you're deluding yourself.