text: Unfortunately, this campaign was never going to be about "the issues."  Trump simply could not run on the issues because he does not know enough about them to sustain a substantive discussion, let alone participate in a debate.  He was always going to rely on the bombast and bluster that got him through the primaries.  Clinton is a policy wonk who won the admiration even of her opponents for her mastery of issues while she was in the Senate.  Trump would have drowned in the sea of his ignorance had the campaign been about issues -- and he and everyone around him knew it.  A danger for Hillary, a danger for nerds generally, is that she might have bored us with the minutiae of policy and philosophy.  It would have been a blessing.  Trump has done enormous damage.  His campaign was an exercise in bigotry, ignorance and boorishness.  That it got him this far is tragic.  Pray God, this far and no farther.