Well, here’s the most depressing thing you’ll read today…

“Time for GOP and others in power to accept that with Trump, the worst-case scenario is the most likely scenario” https://t.co/wcbTHyDSAc

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) August 14, 2017

Trump’s rise was predicated on denial: that he’d lose the primary, that he’d lose the general election, that his autocratic ambitions would be curtailed by our systems of checks and balances. It all happened anyway. It is time for the GOP and others wielding power to accept that with Trump, the worst-case scenario is the most likely scenario. It took the GOP two years to staunchly condemn Trump’s embrace of neo-nazis. When it comes to nuclear weapons, there is no such luxury of time.