In 1996, fully two decades ago, the syndicated television program The Simpsons prophesied of a Trump/Clinton presidential race, using the metaphorical ruse of Kang and Kodos (and Bob Dole) to make its stunningly prescient point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7XXSt9XRM
And it predicted the outcome of that election as follows:
Uncanny accuracy, don’t you think?
I’m grateful to one of my sons for bringing these twenty-year-old examples of clairvoyance to my attention.
In other news, here’s a National Review editorial regarding Mr. Donald Trump’s threats and attacks against Heidi Cruz, the wife of his Republican rival Sen. Ted Cruz:
And here’s an item from the Weekly Standard on Mr. Trump’s pledge that, as president, he would order American soldiers to commit war crimes against women and children in the Middle East:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/kill-the-families/article/2001509
Apparently, though, nothing can stop Mr. Trump’s juggernaut. No matter what he does, no matter what he says.
I begin to feel a kinship with the legendary Cassandra, daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Homeric Troy: She was blessed with the gift of truthful prediction, but cursed with the punitive divine guarantee that nobody would ever believe her accurate prophecies.
No matter how many items that I post against Donald Trump — most any one of them more than enough, in my view, to justify voting against him — I’m told by certain Trumpist readers that I never post any actual arguments or facts but merely call their Leader ugly names, and that I really ought to shut up.
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