Trump's "candidacy" is not a legitimate candidacy. It's more of a promotional ad campaign for the Trump brand (as if he needs more promotion). It's disgraceful the way he's using the political process as a vehicle to further his financial and business interests, but when campaigns -- thanks to Citizens United -- are fueled more by money than by actual issues and ideologies, perhaps this is the inevitable outcome. Trump's loyalties are to his stockholders and to the bottom line of his balance sheet, not to the country.

Corporations are global entities (and people too, my friend, let's not forget, as Mitt Romney reminded us in 2012) that don't recognize things such as borders or boundaries or laws or constitutions or history or any of the other indices that pertain to sovereignty. To them it's as ephemeral (and arbitrary) as crossing a time zone.

It's not beyond the realm of possibilities to imagine Trump as President trying to buy and remake the Arlington Cemetery because it would be a great place for a golf course or another gaudy hotel (with his name up in lights, of course).

Okay, that might be a little over the top, but hey, to a capitalist nothing is beyond the pale when it comes to the opportunity to make a profit.