For all the faults and problems in our democratic system that I have seen throughout my life I have never been here.  There has always been issues or concerns that I have had, but at no point have I felt like it could not be saved.

But what Trump seems to suggest is that we are no longer even pretending people need to be qualified for the office.  From this point on the people we vote for will be entirely linked to our hatreds, bias’, and our self interest.  We have dispensed with even the illusion of trying to be better than we are.