No Waking From This

I find it distasteful and discouraging that pundits and reporters can declare the Republican nomination process to be pretty much over already.

There is no satisfying answer to “How can this be?” because we’re still dealing with an irrational base and a candidate who has never been good with taking No for an answer, who cannot bring himself to simply walk away for the good of a political party and the country.

Trump’s motives are obviously lowbrow and self-serving. He possesses not one public service bone in his body. He’s gonna leave it to the dark-minded incompetents around him to run the day-to-day things, and his main role, if he were to prevail in November (with sentences possibly handed down, and indictments and felony counts still looming), would be to continue as the mealy-mouthed front man he’s always enjoyed being. Playing POTUS, saying ridiculous, dangerous, mind-numbingly dumb things all the time. And in position to wreak havoc with the Justice Department.

His motives for seeking the office are no secret. And they are all nefarious.

Of course, echoes of the time-worn lament will reverberate in many a brain: “How could we let things get this far? Again!”