Many Americans will move to Canada if it happens. The BBC reported in March that it is the top threat to the global economy and US national security. It will do a lot wrong to mother nature and to the female gender writ large. We do not even want to imagine the insult and injury it has in store for the minority populations. On the other hand, after eight years of drought under President Cool, it gives comedians cause for optimism about the future of joke material harvests. It is a Trump presidency, and it has the world on red hot alert.

After New York’s primary this past Tuesday, the red should have gotten redder because Trump has “mathematically eliminated”—to use the phrase in his victory speech—his Republican rivals for the party’s nomination. Continue reading →