Anyone who appalled by the thought of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for President must search for words to explain what a horrifying idea this is.
Trump is a snake oil salesman. Trump is a con man. Trump is a fraud. Trump is hoaxing working people into believing that he has a secret plan to bring back the jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries (by people like Donald Trump) or that were lost to new technologies.
Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post says quite simply that Trump is a charlatan. Ken Bernstein, a regular blogger for the Daily Kos, dissects that article here.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Rather than a Bio 101 one class, rather than say I “dissect” it I might prefer a more psychological description, I “analyze” it. But since people really should read the original Robinson, thanks for the attention.
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Let’s see, when was the last time we had a presidential nominee who specialized in bankruptcies (two companies and the state of Texas)? Oh, right, that would be 2000, and look how well that turned out. Tax cuts and two wars we are still paying for.
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Trump is, before all else in regards to the election, a figurehead. He took advantage of the disarray and confusion in the Republican Party that was brought about by the insurgency of the Teaparty and the general tendency on the right to rigidly enforce their own brand of political correctness within the party. He ran a populist campaign that exploited the general disgust that exists among Americans of every political persuasion with the cluelessly out of touch status quo in DC that quite obviously cares not for ordinary citizens. Trumps path forward was clear, especially since the right wing of the American polity had made it impossible for themselves to advance any insider/established candidate that could gain broad popular support from their base, because they made it impossible for any such candidate to exist in the first place. Trump, being a figurehead and not having any political competence could not find any person like himself, a political outsider, to pick as VP that would be acceptable to the GOP so he chose an insider to solidify support from the establishment, the same establishment that is holding its nose in hopes that once elected, Trump will, like most all other presidents, succumb to the persistent power structures that don’t much care who is president. All presidents are dependent on that structure for their support and information, some just parse it better than others. DC is a hall of mirrors built inside an echo chamber. I’m sure there is a large faction within the GOP that silently is absolutely giddy that Pence is the VP pick, a heartbeat away from the presidency. If Trump somehow fails to be manipulable or compliant, Pence might be a bullet or a poison dart away, not a heart beat. Trump would make a far better martyr than a president. Pence was only a good choice in the very short term, for the purposes of the election. The GOP supports Trump, but doesn’t like him at all and probably never will even though he is doing a quite passable job of presiding over their messaging apparatus. As I said at the start, Trump is a figurehead. He is making populist promises the GOP has no intention of implementing as such and the future disappointment among his supporters if Trump prevails but fails to deliver will turn very ugly and likely not be directed at the true source, the American deep state, rather than at political/social enemies of the right whom they would shamelessly blame for the sunrise itself after declaring it to be the root of all evil. Pence is Cruz without the blatantly anti government bomb throwing and the messianic fantasies absorbed from his father. He is just as much a threat to America as Trump is, perhaps more so.
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Hilary goes for the jugular:
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