Senator Clinton’s chances at this point rest on diminishing other candidates and outspending them. It’s attrition. If she gets the nomination, she doesn’t want any more votes than are necessary to win the presidency. Mouthing those outrageous idiocies is an effective way to get sensible people tuned out and apathetic, and attract cretinized supporters. Authoritarians of any ideological bent need a core group of wingnuts, who will swallow any nonsense for the team and grind down objectors with bellowed talking points. She’s off to a good start in finding them.