I think even a half-decent scan of the Republican party as a whole reveals a collection of snakes and weasels, but only one unicorn and that's Trump. He's the only one with the peculiar set of talents to be openly corrupt, shamelessly deceitful, and ethically hollow, while also holding mass appeal. He is a singular danger to American democracy, and this time he has intention and organized backing that he didn't have until the latter stages of his previous term.
If Trump is elected he will hit the ground running, and will immediately begin unraveling the threads that hold the fabric of American government and democracy together. They may not get it back, and even if they do the damage done in the meantime may be immense both within the USA and elsewhere in the world as the balance of power shifts.
He is uniquely dangerous, and to think of him as anything other than the unique threat he poses betrays either wishful thinking, extraordinary cynicism, or pure ignorance either about the man himself or about how democratic governments are held together and are perpetuated.
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