Many years ago, when I was a prosecutor, I was assigned to handle a case that was very old, had passed through too many hands, and was screwed up beyond belief.  I went to my boss and gave him about a 20 minute rendition of all the problems, including mistakes and misconduct which were likely to embarrass the entire office.  My boss listened carefully, then observed, “That sounds like a parade of the horribles.”  And so it was.  When I wake up every morning these days and think of the choice we have in this presidential election, the phrase, “parade of the horribles” echos in my ears.  The Democrats have trotted out (well, not trotted out, more like dragged out) Hillary Clinton as their nominee.  Hillary is a woman who likes to talk about how transparent her campaign is.  I agree.  Her campaign is transparently corrupt, and she is and has been thoroughly corrupt for the entire time during which she has been in public life.  Hillary can barely stand up and when she can stand, she stands for nothing.  She wants to vastly increase taxes, she wants to continue ruinous spending, she wants to do away with borders and import aliens who cannot be vetted, she promises to destroy what’s left of America by appointing more left-wing radicals to the Supreme Court, she screwed up the Middle East as Secretary of State, and it won’t get better if she’s President.  She is one of the most unpopular presidential nominees in the history of the republic.  And she’s going to win.  How?  Why? This was the election that I was looking forward to.  We’d finally be rid of Il Duce Obama.  Republicans had a deep bench, with 17 candidates for the nomination.  Voters were ready for a change.  So who do we get as our nominee?  Donald Trump.  Trump is not going to win for two reasons.  One reason is personal to him and the other is institutional.  Sure, I understand Trump’s appeal was that he wasn’t a politician.  He doesn’t speak like a politician.  He promises to to overthrow the establishment.  He articulates the rage many of us feel when we see what’s left of what used to be our country.  I get it.  Trump managed to convince the powers that be that, if elected, he actually would do the things he says he will do.  That’s why he won’t be elected.  He’s too big a threat.  No, not a threat to start a war or something like that, but a threat to upset the cozy arrangement that the establishment in both parties enjoys.  No matter which side gets elected, the money keeps rolling in, and they’re not going to let a little thing like an election get in the way, for you see, Trump is right about one thing; the fix is in.  There is no question in my mind that, had any of them been nominated, any of the other 16 Republican candidates would be running ahead of Hillary Clinton.  If Hillary had debated Ted Cruz, the only thing left on the stage when he got done would have been a grease spot where she had been standing.  With all of her negatives, the only way Hillary Clinton could be elected in 2016 was to distract the voters from the issues.  She had to turn the campaign away from the issues and into a circus of scandal and sensationalism.  That’s exactly what we got.  This is Trump’s personal problem.  Although he calls himself a populist, he’s really a narcissist.  A populist is concerned about the ordinary person.  Trump has proven himself concerned mostly about Trump.  Hillary knows this, and has been able to distract Trump from the issues back to Trump’s chief concern; his own image.  Every time I hear another ridiculous claim from some woman who has decided, 20 years after the fact, that Trump looked at her the wrong way and caused her to feel uncomfortable three weeks before the election, I know what Trump should say at the next debate: “These are all lies created for a political smear campaign to distract us from the real issues, because Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to talk about the economy, jobs, college loan debt, the national debt, open borders, Islamic terrorism, the Middle East that she helped to make more dangerous, the Supreme Court that she wants to ruin, or any of the corruption scandals in her life, including lying about her emails and destroying evidence.  She just wants to tell you Trump said a dirty word many years ago.  I’m not taking the bait.”  But he won’t say that because he can’t resist discussing his favorite subject;  himself.  That’s the personal aspect.  As for the institutional, the only way a criminal burdened by the scandalous baggage of Hillary Clinton could pull off such a charade is for the entirety of the media to be so corrupt that it will focus solely on Trump’s personal issues and avoid any criticism of Hillary.  Fortunately for Hillary, the media is just that corrupt.  When Democrats claim the system is rigged against minorities, the media covers that with great respect.  When Trump says it’s rigged, he’s ridiculed.  When it came to light that Democrat Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz was rigging the game for Hillary she was forced out.  We can’t have a rigged system, right?  Wrong.  Who did the Dems replace her with?  Donna Brazile, who we now learn, while working for CNN, passed debate questions to Hillary in advance.  Does the media care?  No.  Devastating material from Wikileaks and in the recent FBI report on Hillary is barely mentioned.  There’s no time for that when some woman is crying on Gloria Allred’s shoulder about the way Trump once looked at her.  96% of “journalists” (LOL) who contributed to the candidates gave money to Hillary, and Hillary’s staffers are wining and dining them regularly.  Yeah, that’s legit.  We now have evidence of a massive Democrat effort to cause violence at Trump rallies by planting people who pose as Trump supporters.  The media’s not covering that.  There’s evidence of pervasive voter fraud in cities such as Philadelphia.  The media’s not interested.  The other day, one of Trump’s campaign headquarters in North Carolina was firebombed.  To be fair, CNN did cover it.  They blamed the bombing on Trump’s “rhetoric.”  Even Fox News is no longer “fair and balanced.”  And so, the parade of the horribles is about to pass in front of the reviewing stand.  Here’s the Trump float, with Trump alone on it, pacing back and forth, talking about himself.  And here comes the Hillary float, with Hillary on a gurney.  The float features Hillary staffers destroying cell phones and computers with hammers while women weep about being mistreated.  Bill Clinton is on the back of the float, shackled like Hannibal Lecter so he can’t grab the women.  And one of these two reprobates will be our next President.  We deserved better than this.