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Thu Jul 21, 2016, 09:26 PM Jul 2016

Last year, I predicted the GOP would nominate Trump — here is what will happen next

After Trump's defeated, his base will face an energized electorate of diverse Americans who rallied to defeat him


Last year I predicted that Donald Trump would be the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nominee. I shared this intuition in my writings here at Salon, my own website, and during various TV and radio appearances. My prediction was met with incredulity, rebuttals that the “data” does not support such a conclusion, and a deeply held belief that the elites and opinion leaders in the Republican Party would never let Donald Trump ascend to power.

My critics were wrong. I would be proven right. On Tuesday at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Donald Trump, the American Il Duce, was officially selected as the party’s presidential nominee. I am not psychic. Nor was my prediction an act of political prestidigitation. The talking heads in the mainstream corporate news media were simply looking in the wrong places for answers.


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Last year, I predicted the GOP would nominate Trump — here is what will happen next (Original Post) heresAthingdotcom Jul 2016 OP
"The Republican Party is the United States’ largest white identity organization; ..." eppur_se_muova Jul 2016 #1

eppur_se_muova

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1. "The Republican Party is the United States’ largest white identity organization; ..."
Thu Jul 21, 2016, 11:58 PM
Jul 2016

Worth a read for that line alone.

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