Donald Trump faces the prospect of defeat

Asked whether he would accept defeat, Trump answered at last night’s debate: “I’ll look at it at the time.”

As regular readers know, I’ve grown increasingly to appreciate the writings of James Michener over the past couple of years; he was not, as sometimes said by the artsy crowd, a mere entertainer. The novel Space is extraordinarily prescient with respect to many of the issues now wracking the country, and his valedictory, This Noble Land, could have been written after last night’s debate.

3. Does the nation have a political system that ensures peaceful transition of power from liberal to conservative and vice versa?

One of the glories of American and British government is the orderly way in which such transfers of power occur. In the United States we have an election on a Tuesday and by eleven o’clock that night the entire nation knows and accepts the fact that a new political power is now in charge.

Apparently, The Donald is so megalomaniacal that he is prepared to upend that honorable American distinctive if he “looks at it” and doesn’t like what he sees.

Is another krystallnacht in the offing? Though most of us look at Trump and see a buffoonish cartoon character, I am convinced that he and the insane mob that follow him around are quite capable of it — and that too many Republicans are whorish opportunists who will look away. The greatest threat the Republic faces today is Donald Trump, and he must be not merely defeated, but humiliated and cast out of public life forever on November 8th.

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