As more and more time passes since the contested Republican primaries, now official nominee Donald Trump has started in earnest a campaign to unify party support behind him. Between mellowing his tone and proposals to be less divisive, and meeting with party leaders like Paul Ryan to hopefully win their support, Trump is firmly on the general election war path with a little under six months to go.

Unfortunately for the Democrats, their primary season still doesn't seem to have an end in sight. Sanders, determined to push the party platform to the left in certain areas, has repeatedly sworn to see his campaign to the end, refusing to let Clinton focus on the general election. While a dynamic party is certainly a good thing, the increasingly polarizing language between the two candidates could keep current Sanders supporters from voting for Clinton in November, creating an even more difficult race for the assumed candidate. Given this context, and since engaging in hypothetical scenarios is fun, let's assume Donald Trump wins the November presidential election. How bad could it be?

Much of Trump's popularity in the past year has come from his stance as an anti-establishment candidate, a political outsider coming to shake up Washington at its roots and Make America Great Again. He has been presenting himself, apparently successfully, as a businessman with solutions, a man who understands the economy and how to run an organization, whether that be real estate business or a sovereign state.

Some of his policies that have garnered the most attention and would most drastically affect the U.S., namely a proposed Mexico-U.S. border wall, massive tariffs on countries like Mexico and China, and a ban on Muslims entering the country, all seem to arise from the same source. The entirety of Donald Trump's campaign has been based on an overstated sense of American exceptionalism, machismo and wishful thinking, reflecting the anger in certain segments of the population without proposing constructive solutions. Any of the these actions would seriously isolate the United States and cause economic turmoil for all countries affected.

Rather than reflect the complex nature of international politics and decision making, they represent the knee-jerk reaction of someone who sees something they don't like, and ran with the first solution that came to them. The ways in which Trump has vastly changed his tone and approach to issues such as abortion in just the past year, and the recent dilution of his ban on Muslims, all point to rash decisions without a thought for the consequences.

While these tactics have seen Donald Trump secure the Republican nomination, his indignation over thought, changing policies and exceptionalism verging on isolationism would make for a disastrous presidency. Unfortunately for the Republican candidate, undertaking such bullheaded policies ends with being ostracized by the international community, which the U.S. is not only a large player in, but reliant on for continued economic growth and security.

Even Russian President Vladimir Putin,who oversaw the annexation of Crime, undermining Ukraine's national sovereignty, tries to justify his policies to the international audience and create a political platform to stand on. Trump's brashness and lack of forethought, while potentially refreshing to discontented voters, can not function on the world stage.

Taking the worries of President Obama and foreign leaders as a compliment underscores these flaws, all of which would drastically increase the troubles of the United States abroad. But looking beyond these facts at its heart, almost all proposals from the current Republican nominee have revolved around scapegoating various groups, placing the blame anywhere that might garner him support. That is a foundation that not only can't function on the international stage, but which the American public can not accept.