re: #545 HappyWarrior

I don’t think you’re getting me. I know the what. What I’m distressed about is the how. In a truly ideal world, Trump is beaten in a landslide, hell in a truly ideal world, Trump gets laughed out of the GOP primaries as a creepy son of a bitch who offers nothing but empty bullshit.

None of the GOP candidates in 2016 offered anything but empty bullshit. Trump did it the best. Between that and the expedited coarsening of the GOP in the last 10-12 years (a combination of losing the culture war, the economic disaster of the end of the Bush Administration, and the growing xenophobia of aging white people), a candidate like Trump makes sense. Unfortunately, the GOP doesn’t have the internal mechanics that the Democratic Party has to prevent a disaster nomination like Trump.

As for the general, we’ve had the discussion before, but I think Clinton was simply the perfect foil for him.