Many FR pundits held forth their plausible ideas in the run up to the election, but few have been proven right.
In June 2015 it was a complicated idea to predict how Trump would do. He was unconventional to say the least. The question was how well would that play out?
THe true mastry of Trump was his willingness to take on the media, and then double down, and double down again. The mediots honestly thought they could take him out. And they did their best to turn him into a pariah, but instead made him president.