If Trump wins — and that looks unavoidable as I type this — I hope the elites and the pundits realize that they brought this on themselves.

First, they brought this anguish by running such a terrible candidate as Hillary Clinton. Neoliberalism is dying to be replaced with what we aren’t sure yet. That’s still up in the air, but the sickness and rot of that system of repression is irreversibly embedded now, with no cure and now no palliative. I thought the initial death spasms would be post-Hillary, but turns out I was wrong.

Second, they did this to themselves and all of us by telling large swathes of the population that they are irrelevant and the jobs shipped away and the towns destroyed were “progress” and that actually “free trade” has only salubrious effects. Even now you hear this litany of BS and Trump winning (probably) is America’s inchoate, self-destructive yawp of negation.

Third, in ignoring the consequences of their own disconnection from the day-to-day life of Americans they’ve insulated themselves from the idea that the pursuit of more money and more power is not what actually matters to most people.

The neoliberal consensus is done, though its expiration will take decades. That we’ll probably replace it with something far worse doesn’t mean it’s not over.

Still think Sanders would’ve bested Trump pretty easily, or even Elizabeth Warren.

I say this with a little gloating, I must admit — but mostly horror and trepidation: Democrats, this is what you get when you run such a irredeemably bad candidate as Clinton and then tell everyone they should worship the ground she walks on.