Late on a warm June evening in New York’s Central Park, a crowd was enjoying a production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in 2017 when Laura Loomer stormed onto the stage and disrupted the show, shouting: “Do you want Trump to be assassinated?”

Trump’s increasingly close ties to the “proud Islamophobe” expose some ugly truths his allies would rather keep hidden.

What the embrace of Loomer suggests, however, is that Trump is intent on running a campaign by and for the true believers. There will be no pivot to the center, however unbelievable, when one’s top adviser is an extremist who posts racist bile while attending a memorial for victims of a terrorist attack.