@sinkspur @mystery-ak "So any assessment of the path forward following his inevitable defeat next week has to take into account the factors that led to that success."
I am afraid Trump might win. I detest this "the emperor has no clothes" man who is mentally unstable and I believe he will start WWIII due to his ignorance and sociopathic/paranoid behavior. This is the first time in my 83 years I literally, actually, "hate" a candidate and it is his behavior that I "hate". He lies like an automatic machine you can't turn off. I hate the way he presents his body as it is evidence of mental instability. He is orange because he wants to look different than the way he really is.
His hair is another sign he wants to be something he is not. When he was losing hair, he had a plastic surgeon cut his scalp to cut out bald spots and pull and sew the remaining skin with hair together. The pain he had after the surgery was so bad, he blamed his wife for his pain as it was her plastic surgeon who did the surgery. He wanted the wife to suffer the pain he was having, so he grabbed her by the hair and pull gobs of it out, then asked, "Does that hurt?"
This man is flawed to the extent he has no redeeming value and he may be president with the red button he can punch when he wants to punish the world because it is "unfair" to him and it is "rigged" against him. His paranoia is of a height seldom seen outside a mental institution. In his mind he is the greatest on earth and if there is the slightest opposition to him, he will go after that "unfair" "rigged" person or organization (or country in the future), and pursue him/her/it until the entity is destroyed in wealth or reputation. If he goes after a country, which I believe he will do when a country opposes him, there will be war.