The scariest thing about Trump isn’t even Trump himself; we all knew he was a bloviating windbag. It’s that so many people in our country are so afraid that he can slide in and say, ‘You know why America isn’t great? Those brown people over there’. And people, lots and lots of people, listen to him.

Learning that, even by your own worst case estimations, you were wrong about how much of your country is (or is willing to follow) hateful bigots is surprising.You’re absolutely right. Trump brings an awakening of another kind.

Donald Trump is the death of the hope of Obama, the antithesis. Donald Trump is the mirror held up to our country that we can’t turn our heads away from. Donald Trump is the dying corpse-fart of the idea of white American exceptionalism. This is their last hurrah, and they’re giving it all they’ve got.

That terrifies me.