This election is going to suck: Why Hillary vs. Trump will be vicious, infuriating & bad for America [View all]

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This is really happening, people. Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the United States.

Just saying it still feels strange, but then again, pretty much everything about this most shocking and chaotic of election seasons has been deeply surreal. Clinton is a heavy favorite to beat Trump, but the journalistic graveyard is littered with the bones of columnists who are now being forced to literally eat their incorrect words about the 2016 campaign, so I’d be a fool to say I was completely sure about that. But I am sure of one thing: The general election we are now all going to endure together will be a horrible, horrible experience.

How horrible? Let us count the ways.

First, it will be unrelentingly nasty. Trump is a neo-fascist thug whose hatred of women courses through every vein in his body, and who has already promised to make his fight with Clinton very personal. Clinton’s penchant for bare-knuckle political brawling goes back to the very first years of her life in politics, and—in sharp contrast to her bout with the comparatively cuddly Bernie Sanders—a huge number of voters will be begging her to hit Trump with everything she’s got. And that’s before you get to the Super PACs and other outside groups from both parties who will blanket the country with attacks. We will drown in the flood of viciousness that awaits us.

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http://www.salon.com/2016/05/04/this_election_is_going_to_suck_why_hillary_vs_trump_will_be_vicious_infuriating_bad_for_america/