Politico visits something I speculated about here, and which the New York Times has begun to worry about: The near-certainty that the sick pastiche of nutjobs who are now the Republican base will not lose gracefully.
Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to lose on Nov. 8, refuse to concede the election, and teeter the country into an unprecedented crisis of faith in government. Republicans and Democrats, in Washington and beyond, fear that the aftermath of the 2016 election will create a festering infection in the already deep and lasting wound that the campaign is leaving on America.
I hope it doesn’t happen, but it is not foolish to worry about what comes next; the Trump campaign is that egomaniacal, is that anti-American, is that poisoned and poisonous, is that ignorant, is that malicious.