Tom Toles: Hillary has already won the presidency
How can I make such a bold assertion before she has even received the nomination? Because I already did, several months ago, when it was harder, before a single primary or caucus vote had been cast. And yes, I got the Trump part right too.
The air was dense back before Iowa with tales of Jeb, and Rubio and all the rest at the adult and children’s tables. Trump would never be the nominee. A colleague had to literally eat his column predicting that Trump would never win the nomination. It just couldn’t happen. Until it did. (I did predict Trump would win Iowa, which he didn’t, but ‘close enough’ applies in horseshoes and hand grenades and primary seasons). I correctly predicted the craven capitulation of the Republican party.
And now with the polls ‘tightening’ like your clenching teeth (or whatever), speculation is everywhere that Trump will win the election too. He won’t. He is going to lose, and lose badly.
Why? Because the Republican party is not the same as the US population. Yes there is overlap, and yes everyone feels the goosebumps of an idiot breaking all the rules and getting applause for it, but We’re Not There Yet. The American public, for all its waywardness and depravity and reality-show slumming, has not yet thrown in the towel on trying to have a republic and make it work, the Republican party notwithstanding. Donald Trump is a charlatan and a dangerous one, and this will become abundantly clear as the rest of the campaign unfolds. He can threaten the media and wave his whatever-sized hands all he wants, but it is no big mystery as to what he really is, and barring a level of economic and social dysfunction significantly greater than what we have now, he will go down, and go down in flames.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2016/06/01/hillary-has-already-won-the-presidency/
Posted today.
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