The particulars of Trump’s rhetoric may vary — sometimes he’ll blame the media, sometimes he’ll blame the Democrats, sometimes he’ll advocate one or another conspiracy theory — but he will never look inward and never sincerely ask Americans to seek out their better selves.

Every bit of this was predictable from the moment we realized that the bomb sent to George Soros’s home was not an isolated incident. Of course this was where he would end up. There is literally no imaginable situation in which Trump would act as a president of all Americans, no crisis in which he would be a force for calm, no event that he would not seek to turn into an attack on those he believes are his enemies, no moment where he would not act in the most petty and reprehensible way possible. That’s who he is, who he has always been, and who he will always be.