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The author is getting it but he's still in denial. See here:

But let's face it: there's never been a major-party nominee with his background, his temperament, his notoriety, the sheer air of vengeful zeal he inspires in supporters, and the fearful determination he inspires in opponents. Add the most polarizing candidacy in memory to a pre-heated atmosphere of partisan polarization and fundamentals that are relatively neutral, and it's hard to imagine a scenario in which Trump keeps winning right through November.

As to that "vengeful zeal", the author might be correct with respect to the Republicans but it is a common emotion, and motivation, among the Left. It is, in fact, the driving force behind the 0bama administration and we are still reeling from the blows that wretch and his acolytes have inflicted on a country they hate. Vengeful zeal, indeed. It didn't come from nowhere.

The man represents the absolute opposite of the "safe change" an "out party" must normally offer to win over an electorate tired of, but not necessarily angry at, the incumbent party.

Here the author hasn't quite caught up with the zeitgeist yet. It isn't just the incumbent party toward which the anger is directed, although they've earned it for embracing the racism, the contempt for middle America that has so pervaded the political atmosphere for the last eight years. The anger is directed at the arrogant, disconnected, and thoroughly corrupt system that produced that incumbency so perfectly represented by one of the most corrupt and disgusting figures in American politics, Hillary Rodham Clinton. That anger is more universal than Trump's candidacy and will bleed over heavily into his favor should Clinton manage to defeat Sanders for the Democrat nomination.

This isn't, as the author has implied, a normal campaign, and the usual rules he leans on are not going to support his case or his candidate. The voters aren't looking for "safety". They're looking to tear the beating heart out of the current political establishment and Trump just might be the only thing keeping that from happening on a more literal basis.