You can call it 'self-important if you like, but y

You can call it 'self-important if you like, but you'll be hearing more about the column throughout the day. Mostly denial from the sources you 'value', but actual debate on the merits of the piece from most others.

There's really nothing in it that can't be substantiated, seeing as there are multiple quotes from Trump, together with independent reporting of polls and events.

And most if not all of the insights are empirically verifiable! The following is viewable in posts here daily, particularly the 'cathartic' reference.

We could rename the board '2016 Political Catharsis' and pick up even more members. LOL!

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Trump and his supporters overstate his competitiveness by conflating the wishes of the Republican primary electorate with those of the general electorate. Trump will replicate his success, they say, by continuing to do the things that won him the Republican nomination: “telling it like it is,” accepting “the mantle of anger,” not being “politically correct.”

This is a huge error. Not only do Trump’s utterances repel Democratic voters—a number of which any successful candidate has to win—but they also frighten Republican ones. Romney got 47 percent of the vote in 2012. To use a real-estate metaphor: How do you expect to build a skyscraper when you are demolishing the foundation?

How cathartic it is to give voice to your fury, to wallow in self-righteousness, in helplessness, in self-serving self-pity. It’s what one expects of teenagers, artists, bloggers, pajama boys—immature, peevish, radical, self-destructive behavior.

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