How many Democratic and independent voters share Trump’s implicit racial antipathy to the Black Lives Matter movement? How many worry that the police have backed off law enforcement in response to the so-called Ferguson effect, with a resulting increase in crime? And how many are offended by the concessions of university administrators to demands for speech codes, trigger warnings, “safe spaces” and even resignations?

Is the number of Democrats and independents who feel strongly about such issues large enough to alter the course of the election?

The odds still favor a Hillary Clinton victory, but the issue of political correctness is particularly treacherous for the Democratic Party and liberalism…

Chances are that the severity of Republican divisions will ease pressure on the Democrats to remedy intraparty conflicts, at least for now. While Trump may push his luck too far and go down in flames, the consequences of his bid — and the incendiary anger he has released — have proved unpredictable throughout this campaign and will remain so until Nov. 8th and probably beyond. In that sense, it doesn’t matter whether he ends up as a winner or his least favorite thing, a loser.