So yes, we wuz robbed: Fidelity to an antiquated, fatally flawed electoral college system that violates every tenet of one-person, one-vote. Active voter suppression efforts in key Southern states. Russian hacking. Fake news. James Comey. But we were also wrong. So, so wrong. *** When Donald Trump announced his candidacy, a couple of friends and I engaged in a long-running email laughfest that treated him as the joke we thought he truly was. Surely, such an obviously uninformed, narcissistic buffoon and royalist billionaire had zero chance of becoming president, but we would at least enjoy the comic value of his candidacy…
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Like the entire Republican Party establishment and, in a profound sense, much of the country at large, I am coming to grips with the cold, hard, heretofore unimaginable fact that Donald Trump will be the Republican presidential nominee. And having achieved that status, he is just a few more improbable steps away from the presidency in a year that has scuttled everything we thought we knew about probability. The thought amazes and appalls. And there is more than a middling chance it will come to pass. “President Trump.” And we, who laughed heartily at the petty, petulant, juvenile showman with…