The GOP is about to officially coalesce around a seditionist for president

On Super Tuesday, a majority of Republican Party voters voted for the seditionist. With those awarded delegates and polling leads in this week’s Republican presidential primaries, as well, AP is now forecasting that Donald Trump will clinch the party’s nomination for president of the United States.

It was always going to end up that way, of course. Polling has long shown that the majority of the Republican base—the very white, very angry, very racist, very conservative Republican base—would be choosing the Republican who plotted out a very real, if very stupid, attempt to topple the United States government over any of the also-rans who offered themselves up as alternatives. By this time next week, Trump will have enough delegates to be declared the presumptive Republican nominee—and at no point in the race did anyone appear who had a credible chance of taking it from him.

What that means is that at this point, we can do away with three years of caveats and take it as a confirmed fact. When Republican voters in 14 of 15 states on Tuesday went to vote for who they believed best represented their party and should run the whole of government, they chose the man who launched the most consequential insurrection against the government since the Civil War.

Because that is who they are, and we all ought to be very damn tired of anyone who claims otherwise.