We can no longer pretend this isn’t happening. Donald Trump will very likely be the Republican nominee for president, and there is a non-zero chance he could win in November.

Trump won at least four of the primary contests Tuesday, including winner-take-all Florida. If you count Missouri, where he seems to have beaten Ted Cruz by a scant 1,726 votes, he won five out of six, losing only in John Kasich’s home state of Ohio. Cruz and Kasich are his only remaining rivals — all others have been vanquished — and Trump has won more primaries and convention delegates than the two of them put together.

If we were talking about a normal candidate, rather than a dangerous demagogue, we’d say he had pretty much sealed the deal for the nomination. But otherwise-sensible people seem to be gambling on some kind of miracle — rather than focusing on what needs to be done to keep Trump out of the White House.

The stop-Trump “movement” in the Republican Party has been, thus far, a pathetic joke. The fecklessness of the whole endeavor was encapsulated by Mitt Romney’s performance earlier this month: He told voters why they should not vote for Trump but stopped short of endorsing an alternative.