Deeply depressing (along with fine gallows humor), since the answer seems highly improbable.
'No, the only way to stop He, Trump is to give up on the twin fictions that have given him life—that government is something alien to us, instead of being the political manifestation of the popular will, and that elections are purely entertainment. The only way to stop He, Trump is to re-engage as citizens of a self-governing republic again, to realize that politics matter and that voting is more than an excuse for the PTA to run a bake sale. It is not time to make America great again. It's time to make America America again.'
Or maybe it is possible. We've been going through this GOP primary season waiting for the other shoe to drop, for the Republicans to realize what a zany Trump is. It hasn't happened, and the polling suggests it won't happen among Republican primary voters. Maybe that other shoe won't drop until Trump is at the podium in Cleveland, accepting the nomination, and the Republicans (and Democrats) that see him for what he is actually get mobilized to make sure that's as far as he ever gets.
When I'm feeling cynical about America, though, that moment of realization keeps dwindling into the distance, for the "twin fictions" mentioned in the quoted paragraph.
Bonus points to Charlie Pierce (the article's author) for noting that Donald Trump (a) is a lot like Huey Long, and (b) is promising a lot more free stuff (or at least magical solutions) than Bernie Sanders is.
There Is Only One Way to Stop Donald Trump Now
And it requires all of us to realize who we are.
