News reports often describe Donald Trump's campaign as an appeal to the fears and anxieties of working class Americans.

But in the event that Washington Post readers were unclear about the paper's position on Trump, it has said at least a dozen times this year that the Republican nominee represents a direct threat to democracy, the U.S. and the world.

Here are the last 12 times the Post's editorial board has described Trump as a hazard to America's existence:

1. "Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy. ... Mr. Trump is a unique and present danger [to the Constitution]." (July 22)

2. "Donald Trump: The candidate of the apocalypse." (July 21)

3. "The attempted normalization of [Trump's] candidacy is an attempt to normalize extreme distortion and evasion. To the extent it succeeds, democracy fails." (July 18)

4. "Donald Trump promises to run the country the way he has run his businesses. Recent reporting on Mr. Trump's financial dealings makes that promise sound more like a threat." (July 17)

5. "Treating Mr. Trump as a normal candidate is a grave insult to the country's democratic tradition. … [He's] an unacceptable, dangerous demagogue ..." (July 13)

6. "Both [Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton] are unpopular. Only one is a threat. … Mr. Trump is a danger to the republic." (July 10)

7. "Trump wants to put himself above the law — and that is dangerous ..." (June 3)

8. "Mr. Trump's [energy policy] plan is dangerous as well as incoherent." (May 29)

9. "Mr. Trump is not a typical candidate. He is a unique threat to the Republican Party and to the country. The party should reject him as a nominee, using any and all legitimate means to do so." (April 27)

10. "Mr. Trump must be stopped because he presents a threat to American democracy." (March 16)

11. "Some readers ask how Donald Trump can be a threat to democracy if he is putting himself forward as a candidate. … First, you don't have to go back to history's most famous example, Adolf Hitler, to understand that authoritarian rulers can achieve power through the ballot box." (Feb. 29)

12. "A few days ago we criticized Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for his assertion that a Trump victory in November would silence the doubters. 'Winning is the antidote to a lot of things,' Mr. Priebus had said. We argued that winning would not erase the bigotry and ugliness of Mr. Trump's campaign, nor remove the dangers of a Trump presidency." (Feb. 24)