Well, here we are. Six months. The Republic still holds, for now. The madness didn’t start with Trump. There are at least 62 million reasons why we are here. Here are a few more. It started with:

1. The Tea Baggers
2. Fox News
3. Monica Crowley and Anne Coulter
4. Rush Limbaugh’s pathological hatred of the Clintons, which began in 1992 and continues to this day
5. Glenn Beck: carnie hypnotist turned “repentant” wingnut
6. The absurd claim by people that thousands of African Americans fought for the Confederacy as soldiers
7. Stop and frisk
8. People being okay with mass shootings, even when they involve children
9. “Stand your ground” laws
10. Grover Norquist
11. People thinking that all tax money = “their” money
12. Being against the minimum wage and its increase
13. Banks that charge $36 overdraft fees, $5 for a money order, and $25 for a box of checks
14. People who thought Obama was a Muslim from Kenya
15. People who sincerely thought Obama was the Anti-Christ
16. Being against vaccines, which have saved millions of lives
17. Denying not only climate change but proving unwilling to do anything about it or any other environmental problems
18. Idiotic, racist relatives on Facebook
19. Facebook
20. Smartphones making us look stupid, self-absorbed, and unresponsive
21. Superhero movies and CGI sucking the life out of the American film industry
22. Police shooting and killing people and not being held accountable
23. George Zimmerman
24. The lies and misinformation behind the Iraq War
25. Brilliant comic Dennis Miller becoming an unfunny, boorish, Republican schill
26. Bill O’Reilly and his Killing [insert name here] books
27. Democrats not fighting harder than the Republicans to set the agenda (Bernie, Franken, and Liz Warren excepted)
28. The Virginia Flaggers demanding a Confederate battle flag be raised on property in Richmond that they do not own
29. The Confederate flag flying anywhere outside of a Civil War reenactment
30. Voter ID laws
31. Gerrymandering
32. School districts that have fought Brown v. Board every step of the way and continue to do so
33. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
34. The Koch brothers
35. The gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court
36. The gutting of campaign finance reform by the Supreme Court
37. The unstoppable, unnecessary, absurdly expensive, and bloated Military Industrial Complex
38. Talk radio
39. Click bait
40. Border patrolling “Minutemen”
41. The government response to Hurricane Katrina
42. Internet comments sections
43. Dr. William H. Cosby, Jr., Ph.D.
44. The death of letter writing
45. The third world status of the American music industry
46. The third world status of inner cities
47. The War on Drugs
48. Texas as the epicenter for the textbook industry
49. Texas
50. Saw, Hostel, and torture porn
51. Commercials before movies
52. Walmart
53. Hummers
54. Gov. Schwarzenegger
55. Gov. Ventura
56. Gov. Reagan
57. Gov. Wallace
58. David Duke
59. Cancer taking Siskel and Ebert and Bill Hicks
60. The political schizophrenia of Ohio
61. College football coaches making more than the highest paid professors
62. Rioting when you win, rioting when you lose
63. Family Guy and Seth MacFarlane
64. The 2000 presidential election
65. Everything in Florida between Pensacola and Miami
66. Cable companies
67. Subprime mortgages
68. Payday lenders
69. $1000+ bicycles
70. McMansions
71. Resistance to marriage equality
72. 9-11
73. Jimmy Fallon blowing lines on SNL then being rewarded with the most plum job in late night television
74. Mel Gibson on a phone
75. Blue Ray
76. HR department job application templates
77. Vacuum sealed, shrink wrapped, and unopenable
78. The prison industrial complex
79. Cheap garbage from China
80. Sequels, prequels, and remakes
81. Having to put money up front, all the time
82. Football seven days a week
83. Adult men riding skateboards
84. Backward baseball caps
85. Joe McCarthy
86. Pitch counts and the designated hitter
87. Three strikes and you’re out laws
88. The John Birch Society
89. Ted Nugent
90. Gated communities
91. Hank Williams, Jr.
92. “Right to Work” states
93. Everyone having to work except the rich
94. The electoral college
95. States rights
96. Deadbeat dads
97. Conspiracy theories
98. Fundamentalism
99. The Westboro Baptist Church
100. Joel Osteen