After months of being dismissed first as a joke, then as a source of worry, Donald Trump has secured the Republican nomination in the battle for the White House.
Early attempts to derail the Trump train by the conservative establishment were easily plowed aside. Doubters turned about face and jumped aboard the winning juggernaut.
Previously unimagined by the political elites, Trump as candidate now embodies their worst nightmare.
Those who are waiting for Trump to now become “more presidential” shouldn’t expect it any time soon. That’s not his shtick.
In many scary ways, Trump defines where America’s “infotainment” culture of political discourse has taken the nation. Trump was the second-most covered story by major networks in 2015. (The first was the weather.) And when we say “covered” we use that term lightly.
Trump has got where he is by telling people what they want to hear and appealing to the reptile brains of folks unconcerned by how any of his ideas would work in reality, having lost the ability to distinguish reality from reality TV.
He’s the ultimate cartoon version of a politician. One Internet meme described Trump as what would result if all the online commenting sections were embodied in human form.
Make no mistake, what Trump has accomplished is both remarkable and incredible – the purest sense of those terms. America created Trump. And it will be up to voters there to decide what happens next.
We’ll stand by to the north, watching with shock and awe.
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