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Last Friday afternoon, I started writing a post about why the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency frightens me.

My first draft focused on Donald’s right-wing and “alt right” connections, which were the focus of the prior day’s news, thanks to the presence of a white supremacist at a Trump rally last week who vocally denied that the Nazis had killed 6 million Jews while he brandished a “1488” sign. Its meaning? The number 14 is code for the 14 words of the white supremacists’ creed, and 88 represents the eighth letter of the alphabet – H – code for the chant, “Heil Hitler.” (Don’t believe me? Check out the Anti Defamation League website.)

I didn’t have time to complete my draft that afternoon, but figured I could wrap up the work over the weekend and post on the 10^th. And then, late Friday afternoon came news of the taped conversation between Donald Trump and Billy Bush.

As it has so often in this incredible – and incredulous – campaign, the focus of the national political conversation had shifted yet again.

I decided to wait until after the second presidential debate on Sunday night to rethink my post.

And here we are, on Monday afternoon. There is SO much to be said, on SO many fronts, that I’ve decided to just offer a list of the many reasons I now have for being utterly appalled by Donald’s candidacy – and flat-out petrified at the prospect of a Trump presidency (which thankfully seems less likely with every word that escapes his lips).

Where to begin?

Well, since it was my original focus, let’s start with the Trump clan’s history of race hate and white supremacy.

Donald’s grandfather, Friedrich Drumpf, immigrated from Germany as a young man and made a relative fortune during America’s Gold Rush era by selling food, booze and prostitutes to prospectors – first in Seattle, then Canada, and finally in Alaska.

He waited until he turned 35, the maximum draft age in Germany, to attempt to return home with his newfound fortune, but he and his wife were deported back to the U.S. because he had shirked German taxes and military service. (It’s fascinating how the Donald “apple” seems to have fallen so close to the roots of the family tree.)

In 1927, at age 21, Donald’s father, Fred, was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens, New York. No charges were filed against him, but that didn’t stop Donald from denying recently that the arrest ever occurred. (Microfiche copies of New York newspaper reports clearly indicate otherwise.)

In the 1960s, when Donald was managing Fred’s apartment holdings in New York City, he instructed property managers to mark rental applications submitted by blacks with the letter “c,” to ensure that none of the family’s apartments were rented to black applicants.

Today, Donald’s sons Don Jr. and Eric willingly participate in interviews with hosts of white nationalist radio programs, and tweet out white nationalist “Pepe the Frog” memes. (Barron is still too young for interviews, so we’re left wondering what he has already learned at his papa’s knee.)

And yes, while Donald’s daughter Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism (but doesn’t dress the part) before her marriage and is raising her children as Jews, I need only remind you that many upper-class Jews in 1930s Germany told themselves that Hitler would certainly never go after them – only to find themselves just as dispossessed and just as dead as the bakers who sold them their Sabbath challah once Hitler’s pursuit of the Final Solution took hold.

Donald’s presidential campaign has the support of former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke (even though Donald claims not to know who he is). The campaign is chaired by the “alt right” (translation: white nationalist) executive chairman of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon. And Donald gets campaign advice from Roger Stone, the GOP political consultant and “dirty tricks” master whose racist and sexist tweets got him removed from the commentators ranks at both MSNBC and CNN earlier this year.

Finally, there’s Donald’s bedside reading. As first wife Ivana told her attorney (a revelation repeated in a 1990 Vanity Fair report on the couple’s divorce proceedings), it wasn’t the latest Stephen King novel or an issue of Time magazine. It was My New Order, a compilation of the speeches of one Adolf Hitler.

Fascinating indeed. Also appalling.

Moving on from race hate, let’s now review the ever-expanding list of reasons for my fear and loathing of Donald.

For starters: As last Friday’s release of the Access Hollywood tape demonstrated, Donald is rude, crude and offensive to women. In that tape, he called the subject of his ogling “It.” If that’s not objectification of women, I don’t know what is.

He trotted out four women before yesterday’s debate to rehash decades-old (and long-since debunked) accusations against Bill and Hillary Clinton – callously using them as human shields to divert attention from his conversation with Billy Bush – a stunt that thankfully seems to have backfired on his campaign.

He lied about the reason for that stunt to get the press to cover it.

During the debate, Donald repeated the assertion from his original “apology” that his Access Hollywood conversation was simply “locker room talk” – only to be condemned by fathers, brothers, sons and professional athletes across the land.

Then Donald had the gall to proclaim that “no one has more respect for women” than he. If his behavior is evidence of that “respect,” I’ll have none of it, thank you.

Throughout his campaign, Donald has verbally assaulted wide swaths of the human race – women, immigrants, minorities, non-Christians, the physically impaired, fat people …the latter of which makes me wonder if all of his homes are equipped with skinny-only fun house mirrors.

He has absolutely no experience in government or the military or international relations (other than the personal kind).

His level of understanding of world affairs is abysmally low – as evidenced by his incoherent statement on Syria last night.

He feigned ignorance about Russian hacks of U.S. government and Democratic campaign online communications, despite having been briefed by U.S. intelligence experts – and for the second time stated last night that he wished the U.S. could “get along” with Russia.

Today, a U.S. intelligence expert called Donald’s remarks in the debate a “willful mischaracterization” of Russian hacking efforts, and reported that our intelligence community has expressed a “high confidence level” over the past several months regarding Russian involvement.

And while Donald plays dumb about likely Russian interference in U.S. politics and governance, he refuses to release his tax returns – which would answer questions about the extent to which Russian oligarchs are invested in Trump businesses.

Thanks to reporting by David Fahrenthold in the Washington Post, we can be pretty sure -- even without seeing those tax returns – that Donald isn’t nearly as wealthy or as charitable as he claims to be, and he’s almost certainly not a successful businessman.  (Fahrenthold also broke the Access Hollywood tape story, FYI.)

And Donald’s surely not “transparent” – because if he were, we’d have answers to those questions about his wealth, charitable giving and business acumen (or as he pronounces it from a teleprompter: a CUE man).

While refusing to release his own returns, he claimed last night that Clinton supporters Warren Buffett and George Soros take the same massive deductions he does – a fact already refuted today by Mr. Buffett. I hope a response from Mr. Soros will follow.

Donald proudly acknowledged last night that he hasn’t paid federal taxes in years – obviously considering it a badge of honor, instead of a source of selfish shame.

He lies about his campaign’s tax proposals, which independent experts confirm would help wealthy people (like him) but boost the tax bills of ordinary Americans.

He lies about Hillary’s tax proposals, which wouldn’t increase taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year but would increase taxes on top income earners.

Donald lies about Obamacare. Yes, it may need some rework (as all major legislative initiatives do – just review the history of Social Security or Medicare). But contrary to his claim last night (which the L.A. Times debunked today), healthcare costs following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act are not “going up by numbers that are astronomical…” In fact, the cost curve has, as President Obama predicted, headed downward.

Donald lies about Benghazi. He refuses to acknowledge the fact that President Obama and Secretary Clinton asked the GOP-controlled Congress for additional security funds for U.S. embassies and outposts, but their requests were denied.

He denies the reality of climate change.

He thinks all blacks are poor, uneducated, and residents of gritty inner-city neighborhoods. It seems he has no clue about the success of many ethnic Americans or the growing diversity of so many prosperous American communities – like mine.

He declares himself pro-life, after years of calling himself pro-choice and pushing his lover and then second wife, Marla, to abort the fetus that is now daughter Tiffany. (It’s no great wonder they have only a superficial father-daughter relationship, or that she evaded his post-debate kiss attempt last night.)

Throughout last night’s debate, Donald hulked menacingly in the background whenever Hillary spoke.

He complained repeatedly about being given less time to speak – although the press reported afterward that he’d spoken for about a minute longer than she.

He whined about being outnumbered “three to one” onstage.

And, just as he did in the first debate, he interrupted Hillary repeatedly – after arguing on Twitter following the vice presidential debate that Democratic VP candidate Tim Kaine’s interruptions of Mike Pence should have been prevented.

Donald was a living, breathing (and sniffling) exemplar of sexist mansplaining and alpha-male dominant behavior.

He wasn’t presidential. He was infantile.

And finally, he was anti-democratic in the worst possible way. He loudly and proudly declared that, if he were to become President, he would direct his Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton and throw her in jail.

Cue memories of Watergate. Donald, the President cannot “order” the Attorney General to investigate someone. Doing so was one of Richard Nixon’s impeachable offenses. And it would likely be just the first of many for you.

Observing Donald’s campaign has been exhausting – as exhausting as it has been penning this long, but nevertheless incomplete, list of his offenses against logic, rationality, objectivity, facts and truth.

I’ll leave it to others to add their own reasons for opposing Donald. But, if this list doesn’t offer enough evidence to you of the utter lack of qualification of one Donald John Trump to hold any public office in America, I’m done trying. You, like Donald, are beyond reason.

Something tells me, though, that I’ll have many more reasons to rage against the GOP nominee in the 29 days now remaining before Election Day.

And that’s the saddest fact of all.