@grrlscientist@mstdn.social The answer is really important: because for some reason Republicans want him to run.

This is Democracy for you. The people want it, so it happens. And it's really important to realize that because it shows that something is really broken with our institutions that so many people chose to nominate such a person to run for office.

This is a symptom of a deeper problem. And until we work on addressing that problem things aren't going to get better.

Trump is allowed to run for president because we have a system that respects that choice of the people. But boy, we really need to sort some things out so this doesn't happen in the future.