The more this horrible presidential election advances, the worse it gets. Issues are buried under insults...from one side. Women are used as human shields, after having been treated as waste. Lies, misinterpretations and falsehoods rule.
One might have thought that the right-wing media still had occasional moments of correctness, but unfortunately they do not. The "brown shirts" rule.
As much as Trump is acting like a psychopath right now, there is worse to come. Admittedly he is clueless about geopolitics, history, macro-economy, institutions or...elementary decent manners, he is dangerous. He is the ultimate Manchurian candidate. Not only does he show a taste for "strong" leaders, he collaborates de facto with unsavory handlers of the Wikileaks genre. The threat he poses is actually more serious in the aftermath of the November 8 outcome. He might well become the figurehead of some Jacquerie, starting a fight against the American political model. If he were to mobilize the so-called "disenfranchised" against Washington, this mob might try to break the backbone of the American consensus. Such an uninformed, frustrated minority could create political, financial, and institutional chaos. The Republican Party might fall prey to the ultras or split into a Tory Party and a populist newcomer, ready for isolationism, xenophobia, Second Amendment take-over and constitutional roll back. Trump is an arsonist, not a statesman. The personal assaults will multiply and the mob will become Trump's party. From now on he runs less for the presidency than out of spite.
The world looks on in disbelief as the former indispensable power becomes a talking point for contempt. This candidate is not of the quitting kind. If he loses--which is almost certain--he will not go for the dignified exit. He will choose for some Wagnerian (not that he is familiar with the Tetralogy) outcome made for some god forgotten outpost wherein the cheated white blue-collar workers will be invited to play the part of the gods. They want jobs, they will get hell. Secretary Clinton will win the elections but the hardest part will come later: owning the moral, philosophical space she will need to save America from the abyss. Trump will do anything to deny her what she so rightly deserves.
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