We’re fucked, and by the way I told you so

Ted Cruz has dropped out of the presidential race, and John Kasich is likely finished as well. This leaves Donald Trump as the prospective GOP nominee for president.

And now the pundit class — the one that has constantly derided, made fun of and ignored the other Republican candidates for over a year — is looking on in shocked horror.

Donald Trump, an actual fascist with paramilitary brownshirts and everything, is the prospective GOP presidential nominee. His only remaining obstacle to the White House is either a neoliberal war criminal or a New Deal Democrat, and it’s looking more like the former every day.

We’re all fucked, is what I’m trying to get at. We’re all fucked and it’s by and large because we couldn’t take anything in this election cycle seriously. Jeb was a pushover. Ted Cruz was the Zodiac Killer and has a repugnant face. Ben Carson was asleep 95 percent of the time. Chris Christie was trying too hard to be like Trump. Who is John Kasich?

We gave so much airtime to Donald Trump. So many articles about him. Hundreds of deferential and nonconfrontational interviews done by reporters who ascribed to the idea that there was no way he could be the nominee — he’s just a loud, distracting novelty with bad politics, bad hair and a bad reality show. I think Megyn Kelly is the only journalist who treated Il Douche as a serious, shitty candidate and not like a demigod, and Trump threw a fit about it.

Think about this: in an election cycle, free media exposure is as important as both campaign ads and stump speeches combined. Trump is this election cycle’s fucking media darling. How could anyone legitimately be surprised that he was able to get this far?

I’ve heard folks say that Donald Trump is the “least bad” candidate because of unknown unknowns — that is to say, in a body count check between Trump and Clinton, Trump’s weirdly small hands are relatively bloodless compared to hers, and so there’s a smaller chance that he would commit acts of violence than she would. But we don’t know.

The world Trump is poised to inherit is one where we already have a terrifying surveillance and police state and we wage wars with robot drones up in the sky. To that he wants to add: putting Muslims in camps, especially refugees; forcing companies like Apple to provide a backdoor into their phone operating systems; forcing Mexico to build a wall along our southern border; and getting into trade wars with various nations. Just to name a few small promises he’s made so far.

Point is, I’m fucking terrified of a Trump future that is looking more and more likely all the time. It is not a fucking game. This is going to happen. I don’t think Clinton will be able to beat this dude, and we’re far past the point of a brokered GOP convention or other somesuch shit.

This is it. Buckle up.