2016

Midway through the 2016 Presidential primary season, I started feeling like Michael Corleone in that scene from The Godfather: Part II where he predicted a Cuban rebel victory just based on what he had seen on the street earlier that day. To be fair, I welcomed a Trump presidency about as much as Michael Corleone welcomed a Communist takeover of Cuba but that didn't stop me from noticing that Trump seemed to be becoming increasingly immune to media criticism -- almost as if the voters were deliberately ignoring anything negative said about him, no matter how true it was.

The final proof that my theory was true came when Trump was revealed to have employed illegal aliens for one of his construction projects. Given all the publicity given to his "build a wall" speech and his status as an opponent of illegal immigration, the revelation that he himself hired illegal aliens should have been a vote-killer. But no one who was voting for Trump gave a damn. It seemed as if he could have been exposed as the Antichrist on national TV and he still would have had a substantial following.

And things only got worse by November...