Way back in the summer of 2015 - shortly after Donald Trump announced his candidacy - I was asked if he could actually win. My answer was an emphatic yes. While the media was obsessing over his style, I was arguing that people felt the country was dangerously of course. They wanted a candidate who would drop the namby-pamby political schtick and throw some real punches.
If Trump could stop getting in his own way, I argued, Hillary's glass jaw would emerge and her campaign would collapse - just as it did in 2008.
My liberal friends laughed. They're not laughing anymore.