This is just plain depressing

Not the Donald, although he’s pretty depressing himself, but…

Along with Trump’s rhetoric, the stakes for 2016 have risen dramatically - The Washington Post

"One must scroll back decades for echoes, however imperfect, of what he is saying, from the populist and racially based appeals of then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1968 and 1972…"

…learning that WaPo considers 1972 is no longer in the modern era.