[DeweyCA]

Finally, Trump sensed that the proverbial base was itching for a bare-knuckles fighter. They wanted any kind of brawler who would not play by the Marquess of Queensberry rules of 2008 and 2012 that had doomed Romney and McCain, who, fairly or not, seemed to wish to lose nobly rather than win in black-and-blue fashion, and who were sometimes more embarrassed than proud of their base.
(Skip)
Key is his emperor-has-no-clothes instinct that what is normal and customary in Washington was long ago neither sane nor necessary.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443188/donald-trumps-cunning-animal-instinct

These are two key insights by VDH. These are going to be 4 great years of popping liberals myths and PC.

[Chaguito]

I also enjoyed this observation: “Then members of the Clinton campaign and powerful Democrats joined an effort to pressure electors of the Electoral College to defy their state-mandated duty to reflect the vote totals of their states and instead refrain from voting for Donald Trump. That was all but a neo-Confederate, insurrectionary act that sought to nullify the spirit of the Constitution and the legal statues of many states — part and parcel of new surreal progressive embrace of states’-rights nullification that we have not seen since the days of George Wallace.”