The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.
Last night, Trump agreed on a whim to debate Bernie Sanders, but then backed out. Slate’s Jim Newell thinks he would’ve benefited from such a stunt; personally, I think Trump was smart to back out, because the debate would have been an opportunity for someone with nothing to lose (Bernie) to attack the exact kind of person he’s spent his whole career denouncing (Trump) for two hours on national television. But who really knows, in 2016? Actually, one thing we do know is this: Polls have started to veer back in Hillary’s direction. This bounceback was predicted by many people who projected confidence about it in public but harbored a secret fear that it would never actually happen and that we would all be eating lizards in a nuclear wasteland a year from now. But it happened. And that’s good news! Let’s lower the danger level.
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