You’ve gained lots of fans on the left thanks to your vicious descriptions of Trump and his supporters. Once, on MSNBC, you called his base ‘‘childless single men who masturbate to anime.’’ That was in reference to the alt-right part of his base. I wish I could take credit for it being a broader smear. If one is going to insult a group of people who think that Trump is their own private postmodern Hitler, one ought to be specific.

You also tweeted at Ann Coulter, asking if Trump ‘‘pays more for anal.’’ What do you think it is about Trump that drives the conversation toward sexualized language? I think it’s this: Trump is crude because he’s a genius at reality television. He understands that the masses are trained to want drama. These aren’t people who appreciate subtlety or rational discourse or, you know, arguments.

What started your personal campaign against Trump? I wrote a column in June, for Independent Journal Review, arguing that this thing’s not going to end well. But I figured that the campaigns were gonna take him out. None of them did. Donors thought Trump was a joke, or an idiot, or a clown. Then they thought: Well, Trump will destroy Marco for me if you’re a Bush guy. Or if you’re a Marco guy: Trump will take out Cruz for me. For me, the catalyzing moment in this was the moment he had actually filed his financials.

With accounting by Gabriel, García & Márquez. Exactly. It was completely recursive: I’m worth $10 billion ’cause they say I’m worth $10 billion. I waited for the media to just rip him apart. And no one did. I had thought I was Paul Revere — turned out I was Cassandra.