Most intelligent people are at a loss as to what is to be done about Trump’s seemingly-unshakable success, as well they should be. Trump is a bizarre, capering spectacle of successful incoherence, a phenomenon that by any reasonable understanding should simply not exist, like firenados or volcanic lightning.

But whatever the inexplicable rationale for his continued relevance—whether it’s populist anger with “the establishment,” or the draw of Trump’s peculiar aversion to reality, or the appeal of his red-faced billionaire bluster—we must admit this first and foremost: Trump is fully capable of destroying the Right’s chances for the presidency in 2016.

He will do this in one of two ways: by winning the nomination and losing spectacularly to a delighted Hillary Clinton, or by losing in the primaries and subsequently running a temper-tantrum Independent campaign that captures enough votes to put another Clinton in the White House.

The Clinton Machine is gleefully betting on either one of these. The Clintons, like the Left in general, have always subscribed to Chernyshevsky’s reputed maxim of “the worse, the better,” and this means the GOP has two additional adversaries this election cycle after the Democratic frontrunner: Trump the Republican and Trump the Independent.