Readers have been pestering me for months as to who is going to win the election. You will remember that in 2016 I made a fool of myself when I cast my vote early for Donald Trump, the greenhorn Republican, who had never run for anything before.
The day after the election, it turned out that the entire media had been wrong. Donald won. I had been right. I was of course ignored by everyone save the noble Ben Smith of BuzzFeed.
Then in 2020 I upset the placid waters of the bovine media by saying Donald would win again. He lost, but not by much. And the election was controversial. In fact, it was the most controversial race of my lifetime. I held my tongue, and now the 2024 race is heading toward the finish line. Who will win?
Who is the editor-in-chief pulling for? Will it be the newborn McDonald’s hamburger flipper, in his spotlessly clean McDonald’s apron, or will it be the of-a-sudden advocate for fracking, for cracking down on illegal border crossers, or some other prattle about sex changes, all subsidized by the United States Treasury? And forget not when Vice President Harris backed bugging out of Afghanistan and leaving brave American soldiers bleeding on the tarmac!
I think the winner will be the candidate who picked the McDonald’s hamburger emporium as his symbol for serving the people. Donald Trump looked at a Quarter Pounder of beef and saw it as a ticket to political history. Others only saw a meal. Donald Trump will win in 2024, and he deserves to win. What is more, his appearance at McDonald’s was as brilliant as Calvin Coolidge’s appearance in the 1920s wearing an Indian headdress.
In 2013, when I met Donald for the first time, I concluded that he could be a successful politician. More than that, I concluded that if he ran for president, he would win. He was not like any politician I have ever known (including five presidents). He was smart, aggressive, and he knew enough about the issues to get by. That is true of a lot of pols, but there was something more to Donald. He was a showman and a strategist. I have now, after 11 years of watching him, concluded he has still more gifts. He has the energy of a great athlete and a voice that can only be for a politician a gift from God.
Donald, in 2024, you are going to win again.
