One journalist to another, I have to say that I’m getting very weary of the doomsday predictions around Trump. Regardless of whether you love him, hate him, egg him on or are sick of him, he does not present a viable Constitutional crisis. He won, so he’s president. If he loses, he won’t be.

Too many people are spinning late-night campfire horror stories about him hijacking the military to hold onto power, or suing to remain in office if he loses. Or turning our government into an autocracy that effectively makes him our Putin.

These outcomes simply aren’t possible, and it’s becoming reckless and intellectually dishonest for anyone to suggest that they are. Republicans tried to scare the electorate into supporting Bob Dole in 1996 with a similar tactic: “If Clinton is reelected, he’ll find a way to be president for life!”

Democrats swore the same thing in 2004 about W. Republicans took another swing at the Chicken Little Move in 2012 with Obama.

Enough, already. The candidates — Trump and whomever staggers bloodied and beaten out of the Democratic Party’s version of a WWE battle royale — will say and do enough in stump speeches, debates, and tweets to educate their loyal followers on each other. The swing votes in the middle will have to make up their minds. Trying to scare them with dark fantasies that simply are not Constitutionally possible is just Orwellian bulls — -t.

Tell the truth, put the work in to support your candidate, report the FACTS, and let voters do what they do: vote. The outcome will take care of itself.