Notes on a Phenomenon

Steyn Online ^ | 15 Jan 2020 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

In the course of this week's hosting stints, I mentioned an event I attended at virtually the precise same point in the last electoral cycle - early January four years ago. It was a Trump rally in the capital of Berniestan over in Burlington, Vermont. I don't claim to be right about everything, except when I'm very drunk at three in the morning, but I was right about Trump, and very early on - at a time when far more eminent figures of the American right, such as the two principal hosts of what's now Blaze TV, completely misread both the election and their own base. (I mention that only because the political difference over Trump/Cruz was part of CRTV's souring on me, their breach of my contract, their multiple suits against me, and their multiple judicial defeats.)

So here's what I had to say about Trump on January 9th 2016, at a time when most of the bozos of Conservative Inc were still scoffing at the idea that he could win the nomination. See how well you think this stands up after four years:

On Tuesday night, my daughter and her friends went down to Claremont, New Hampshire to see Donald Trump in action. She and her chums range from the not terribly political to those with the usual enthusiasms of youth, so they went mainly because Trump's a hot ticket, and we don't get a lot of those in the Granite State. Her only other candidate encounter this season was at the North Haverhill Fair last summer when Lindsey Graham pounced outside the 4-H barn, no doubt with an eye to recruiting her for one of his "rotating first ladies".

[Rummyfan]

Party night in Burlington, January 9th 2016

Four years and not much has changed... except for three great years of President Trump!

[Diogenesis]

Berniestan now is pushing for Gulags4all.

[TChad]

Classic Steyn. Very perceptive, very funny, and very well written.