I cannot stress this too much. We must not react too gleefully at our discovery of Trump's flaws, or even at the realization of his own party of his contradictions and inconsistencies. Whoever follows him will not only be servicing the same constituency (with the same ultimate goals in mind) but he will be equipped with the knowledge of exactly where Trump went too far.

Trump has shown them the way through the minefield, Those who follow won't make the same mistakes, and they will get much further than he did. There may even be other Trumps to step on more mines. And when you see their program, you'll see it only stops just short of his. Rubio, Cruz and Carson have already made statements regarding Muslims that were just short of what Trump proposed.

No, I'm not claiming there's an organized conspiracy to conduct a coup d'etat and Trump was the point man. That would actually be easier to guard against than what is actually happening. This is an evolutionary process, a form of natural selection, as each successive candidate presses the Conservative agenda as far as he can until it hits an insurmountable obstacle or bitter resistance. The next one will stop just short of that point. The final result will be the maximum reactionary program that the political process and the electorate can tolerate. The campaign has a year to go before the nominee is picked. That's plenty of time to fine-tune their side, while Hillary waits for the other shoe to drop.

We are one health issue, one economic crisis, one military reverse, one political scandal, perhaps even one natural disaster away from someone just short of Mr Trump in the White House, and he will have majorities in the House and Senate.

I have a very bad feeling about 2016.