This was avoidable.

In April 2016, to try to educate people about the consequences of a Trump victory, the Boston Globe published a fake newspaper front page from the future. The page, dated April 9, 2017, was supposed to depict what could happen if Trump won, and encourage people to turn out against him to avoid that future.

Well, take a hard look at their predictions. It took longer than they expected to reach this point, but for something written in early 2016, it sure looks pretty prophetic: