The end of daylight saving time is perfect this year, because it gives GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his surrogates an extra hour to lie to voters and, if past is prologue, offend an entire swath of the U.S. population.

That’s a huge advantage for his campaign, obviously. If there’s one thing Americans aren’t sick of it’s hearing the election-year dissembling of a 78-year-old misogynist who thinks legal immigrants from Haiti are eating dogs and cats and never apologizes for any of the very wrong and offensive things he says.

Trump’s recent Madison Square Garden rally in New York featured a steady of stream of hateful rhetoric, from one speaker labeling Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” to another calling Democrats “a bunch of degenerates.” Trump followed that up with a rally in Wisconsin where he forgot that women have agency and said he, as a big manly-man president, will protect them “whether the women like it or not.”

And now, thanks to daylight saving time, imagine the things Trump can do with a........

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