In Search of the Worst Political Pundit

Gawker: “Dozens and dozens (and dozens) of people got Trump’s chances wrong, but if you were to identify the wrongest commentator, you would be hard-pressed to find a better candidate than New York Times’ columnist and National Review film critic Ross Douthat.”

“To commemorate Douthat’s awesome predictive power and belief that saying the same thing over and over again will make it true, we’ve collected and celebrate the following Douthat predictions that Trump would not go on to be the Republican nominee.”

The Intercept: “With a few exceptions, those who purported to see the future of the 2016 GOP nomination process spent many months categorically assuring everyone that, polls notwithstanding, Donald Trump simply could not, would not, become the GOP nominee; one could spend all day posting humiliating examples, so a representative sampling will have to suffice.”