Aside from being depressing as hell, this election year has a fairly strange feeling about it. Its component parts do not fit together, leaving odd gaps and spaces between.

The first part is that most of Trump’s voters have valid concerns, although he is frivolous. The second is that though Trump himself has dominated the conversation and process, the issue that rocketed him into to contention largely has gone unaddressed. While he tosses out lines now and then about restoring the manufacturing base of the country, he never explains how he’ll do it, and spends most of his time railing at “Mexican judges,” dead soldiers’ parents and overweight beauty queens. Citing the last, his opponents have based their attacks on the obvious claim he is unfit to hold office, a charge that is hard to deny.