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The men and women who really understood the heart of the former political paradigm will be the ones who have the hardest time letting go and then coming to grasp the new one. Guys like Krauthammer, Hume, the gang at National Review and the Weekly Standard, for example. Even Victor Davis Hanson was having trouble for a while.

Amazing that Rush was so quick to grasp the new reality.

It's not Trump who actually killed the old paradigm. Life moves in "turnings" or "paradigm shifts." Trump was just the right man in the right place and the right time. And his life's work has been go recognize business, political, and cultural shifts and to build on them.

We knew the old weltanschauung/world view was dying when Obama was elected (and his second election removed all doubt). In fact, we might even trace it back to 9/11 and when Bush recanted his call for a new Crusade and told us that islam was "the religion of peace."