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In the spring of 2016 hardly anyone thought Donald Trump had a chance of winning the presidency. Musa al-Gharbi and I were among those “hardly anybodys.” We agreed, in a prescient March 27 interview (write-up here) that the “fixed” selection of Hillary Clinton by Democratic Party elites was a sign that Trump would be the next president.

In retrospect, it was obvious. Clinton was such a weak candidate, and such a perfect foil for Trump, that no Democrat with a lick of political common sense would have supported her if they really wanted to keep Trump out of the White House. Obviously somebody had dictated that the Democrats were going to throw the race to Trump. Later, when President Trump followed Netanyahu’s orders to murder General Soleimani, the greatest military hero of his generation and likely future president of Iran, and move the US embassy to Jerusalem while forcing abnormalization on the US vassals in West Asia…well, it wasn’t hard to figure out who was in charge of the 2016 presidential selection process.

2024 was almost an exact replay of 2016. Once again, the Democrats nominated a guaranteed loser. Kamala Harris had already distinguished herself as the most spectacularly unsuccessful presidential candidate in all of US history. As Ron Unz wrote last summer:

Biden’s departure quickly elevated Vice President Kamala Harris as the likely name to replace him on the ballot and within a few days she attracted enough pledged delegates to confirm her nomination. But although the main reason for Biden’s removal had been his perceived political weakness against Trump, polls during most of 2024 had shown that Harris was just as unpopular as Biden…Entering the presidential primaries in January 2019, she quickly raised more money than any candidate other than maverick socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders. With Sanders considered totally unacceptable by the party leadership, Harris therefore seemed ideally positioned for the nomination. But although Harris was enormously popular among the wealthy elite who dominated the party machinery, she proved so remarkably unpopular among actual Democratic voters that she abandoned the race after just ten months.

For decades, the byword for failed presidential candidacies had been the humiliating 1980 Republican campaign of former Texas Gov. John Connolly, who raised and spent $11 million—an unprecedented sum in that era—while only winning a single delegate. But Harris broke that longstanding record, with her dismal polling numbers leading her to drop out of the 2020 race before the first ballots were even cast in Iowa and thus gaining not a single delegate for

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