I honestly don't think it's gonna be Trump. From what I've been hearing, Trump is either going to cash out (does he really want to be president or just prove he COULD be President? What if he knows he'd fail at being President?), or the Republicans are going to hold an open convention (rather like House Of Cards just did) to find this season's sacrificial lamb to lose to Hillary. The establishment Republicans actually do not want Trump leading the party, they think he'll destroy the brand. But the truth is, they already broke it. The Republican brand has been meaningless for a while now, which is why ignorant loudmouths like Trump and Palin can ascend to the heights they do.
And the truth is the Democrats aren't far behind, they're center-right for the most part but the conservatives who would vote for them won't and the left-leaning voters are completely disaffected by them. No one can really trust Hillary, but she's playing the game so well (and hasn't REALLY been challenged) that she's going to be the eventual nominee.
But they can do this, the Republican and Democrat parties are private entities, they can do whatever they want. We don't really vote for candidates, they just need a certain percentage of people to approve of them. Scratch that, chosen electors. The people don't really HAVE a choice outside of total dismissal, which is why the lesser of two evils always wins and can do whatever they want.
This has always sucked, but there's another stress point coming up, and it's something that doesn't seem connected to politics. See, recently
a computer called AlphaGo reached God-like Go player status. Now, this is a bigger deal than Deep Blue beating Gary Kasperov because you can brute force beat Chess, but there are evidently more permutations of a Go board than there are atoms in the universe. The methodology needed to attain that status requires a process called Deep Learning, which everyone thought was still 10 years away.
What this means is that, as bad as the job market is now, with plenty of jobs obsolete forever because of mechanization, the only two remaning are low brains/low pay and high brains/high pay, drivers or doctors or lawyers. Those are all on the chopping block now. By 2030 we'll need to shift to an entirely new social paradigm and we need forward-thinking leaders to help guide us towards those changes. And the current state of politics means that's probably not going to happen. The seemingly "Radical" but actually very old ideas of Bernie Sanders are a salve compared to what we need to do as a society to prepare for that massive upheaval.
I've been thinking about this for a while, and that article really helped solidify things, and so many of our social structures are just the best way we have of keeping score. Money, the electoral college, and so on are only there because we couldn't get more dependable, malleable data, but soon we'll be able to. We're going to get to the point... sooner than we expect... that we won't have money because we'll have a computer keeping track, making sure we live within our means but also that we're provided for, where our economy is self-correcting, where our traffic is efficient because we're not driving (no more traffic jams), we probably won't need as many of our politicians because they all run on providing solutions that SOUND good and we'll be able to get solutions that can be demonstrated to work (we could vote on desired outcome and desired course of action and see the effectiveness of it while we do it). There's all this tech about to happen that can make our lives easier, but if we don't prepare for it, it could be used to control us. The way the working people have been bent over by corporations and politicians with sh1t like NAFTA and the TPP (which Clinton says she's against, cause she wants votes, but I guarantee she'll vote for because what are WE gonna do about it?), that seems like a stark inevitability. That kind of power by people in control means they won't lose control. I don't want to sound like an alarmist or conspiracy theorist, because this all sounds like science fiction, but it's not.