Great moments in punditry
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Calchas: “Here’s what I know”
Perhaps not on the level of Paul, “When will the stock market recover? Never.” Krugman, but this insight from the New Statesman comes close: June 2016. “Relax, Trump won’t be President, Britain won’t leave the EU.”
It will soon become apparent that the big mistake of this whole electoral cycle was not, “We had no idea how popular Trump could be.” It was, “We had no idea how removed a large segment of the core GOP electorate has become from the rest of the nation.”
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By the end of this campaign I suspect Trump will regret ever having got into politics. Even if he only loses by a few points, his name will be permanently toxified. His TV career will be in jeopardy, as will his property business, which is dependent on his personal brand. In fact, I’m still not entirely sure that he is going to be on the ballot come November - he may engineer his own departure from the race.
On the other hand,and perhaps because he engaged in some self-examination and reflection (probably not) Mr. Leslie published this on January 20 of this year: