The exhaustive despair of Donald Trump's nomination

Yes, Trump is a spectacle to behold. But the implications of his nomination are nothing to laugh at.

Donald Trump is officially the Republican Party presidential nominee and that does not sit well with all.
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Donald Trump is now truly, really, officially the presidential nominee for the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan.

I think I speak for many when I say the first emotion this news evokes is disbelief. It also makes me want to reach for a bottomless bottle of Jack.

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His writing has appeared at Forbes, The Atlantic, First Things, Commentary Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Federalist, Quartz, and other places. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.