If the republican party is really going to push a buffoon like Trump through the primary, then I guess we better get used to parsing her words and looking for silver linings!
In the long view, I am heartened by the opinion my (much smarter, better looking, etc, etc) wife has on the matter:
"With the media and the general public constantly thrashing around with a microscope in the weeds, under the trees, we are all missing the forest. We live in the BEST time, under the BEST circumstance, with the BEST future... In all of recorded history. And no one human, as important as the president is will be able to stand in the way of that momentum and inertia"
Even if Hillary, or Trump, or Voldemort is elected president, we will still all get to live in a great country where every day we get the opportunity to shape at least some small portion of it for the better, and who knows, maybe any one of those candidates will step up to the plate, close their eyes and pull a Pitcher Grand Salami out of the bag like Felix did against Johan Santana (had to get back to baseball somehow ;) )