I think the other thing a lot of fancy people haven't considered is that not only would Trump winning endanger the regular, metronomic cycle of elections and politics in this country, it may ultimately physically endanger them - yes, the fancy people! https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1300573890213801984

The intelligentsia doesn't tend to prosper or live safely in far-right authoritarian states, you know?

It seems very clear that a lot of people in the political intellectual classes simply cannot grasp this, given how enthusiastically they produce and consume things like "Be smart: 17 reasons the election will be more exciting than you expect"

The collected political media, if it ever truly stopped seeing Trump as merely a player in a game where they are the neutral referees, and understood him as a mortal threat to their own wellbeing, could end him in weeks. They don't because they won't, not because they can't