“The center and the left, split, demoralized, confused, frustrated, fails to turn out in significant enough numbers to support the presumptive nominee. It’s all too easy to see how the center and the left could fracture as a coalition. In fact, they already have, and are. The splitting of the center and left would only be a continuation of an obvious trend… it adds up to the nightmare of a re-election for the demagogue. Because nobody is really making much of an attempt to understand any of this — much less fight, correct, or change it… a re-election is probable, right now, and the probability grows by the day. Here is an outline of a few other ways that it could happen.”