The good news is that I don’t think it will come down to this. My belief/hope is that, as the Republican field narrows, the other candidates will pick up the supporters of drop outs, whereas Trump will keep his core (the 6-8% who think the moon landing was faked) and go no further. Trump is being helpful here by insulting all the other candidates, which will make it harder for him to pick up their supporters. I don’t think that Carly Fiorina’s supporters, for example, are going to jump into Trump’s arms after all the trash he has talked about her.

But going back to the Hobbesian choice between Trump and Clinton, I still think that I have to narrowly give the edge to Hillary. Part of this is the “devil you know” phenomenon since nobody, not even Trump himself, knows what this guy would do in office. But part of it is purely tactical. I really think that a Trump nomination and presidency could taint the GOP for years and years to come. Four years of Hillary would make it easier to unseat the Democrats in 2020 and would galvanize a Republican-controlled congress to block her until then. A Trump nomination or first term could make the GOP unelectable for over a decade.

As for your characterization of Hillary, I totally agree. This is a quote that I have included in the blog before that sums her up very nicely:

“She is a dull, grating, inauthentic, over-eager, insipid elitist with ideological blinders yet no particular vision and is likely to be reduced to running on a dubious promise of experience and competence while faking idealism and hope,” political commentator Yuval Levin writing about Hillary Clinton in the National Review.

(Hint: that’s not Hillary, who’s a humorless hack riding on the tails of her far smarter and more likable husband.)