One reason we got things wrong is that we assumed most Americans had come around to realizing just how dangerous Donald Trump and his bad ideas were. And in an increasingly siloed media environment, reaching — let alone persuading — those undisposed to listen to and agree with us appears increasingly impossible. But maybe that’s what Americans require in order to believe such things would happen, since they clearly don’t trust experts’ projections on such matters. Speaking of walls, maybe the only way for Americans to realize how much magical thinking infuses Trump’s promises is to let him try and fail to convince Mexico to pay for his big, beautiful wall. Let him twist in the wind as he struggles to define the vague “something terrific” that will replace the Affordable Care Act.

Source: Washington Post November 09, 2016 18:58 UTC