Halloween: a time for ghosts and goblins, witches and warlocks, and scary things alike. Haunted houses are full of horror-thrill seekers, and the number of Wes Craven movies watched hits a huge spike (RIP). That being said, there is one thing this Halloween, one person, one idea, scarier than anything else.

Donald Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.

Look, don't get me wrong, I think watching Donald Trump make outlandish comment after outlandish comment is hilarious—my roommate even said four years ago that she would vote for him if he ever ran again, because of how entertaining he is to watch. (She has since decided not to follow through with that.) However, it loses its hilarity as soon as you realize that this guy is serious, and he wants to run our country. The scariest part of it all is that there are a large number of people not only taking him seriously, but are actually agreeing with him. Now, I have never met any of these people, so in the spirit of Halloween, he could actually just be receiving a lot of help from the underworld.

I had honestly assumed that this would be just like his very brief 2012 run, and that he would just get bored after a while and drop out. Instead, it has been months of listening to Trump make terrible remarks about minorities and women, while the media eats it up, giving him the attention that he's looking for. So much so, that almost every time I tell someone while I'm abroad that I'm American, they ask me if I'm planning on voting for Donald Trump. I'm not expecting all of Europe to know every presidential candidate in the United States election, but it greatly concerns me that to the rest of the world, Donald Trump is the face of it.

Everyone is entitled to their own vote and their own opinion, even when it's for a guy who thinks that global warming is a concept invented by and for the Chinese. I'm not judging you (I am, though), but the fact is that Donald Trump really isn't qualified to run our country. I realize that America is typically run by old white men with a lot of money, but that is not actually a valid reason to run for office. Every day we get closer and closer to the next election, and with Donald Trump still in the lead of the polls, with no sign of getting bored and dropping out, the fear only gets more and more real.

Halloween is a time to enjoy all things scary, but perhaps President Trump is just a little too scary. Hey, if you're out of costume ideas though and you really want to cause some fear, throw on a crappy toupee and a red "Make America Great Again" hat, and go as the Republican frontrunner himself.