Who wants to be a US presidential election pundit?

Published Thu, Nov 5, 2020 · 09:50 PM

SO, yes, they all proved to be wrong again: The pollsters, the Mainstream Media (MSM), the pundits (and even your humble servant), just like in 2016, when they were so, so sure that Democrat Hillary Clinton would win the presidential race, and many referred to Republican Donald Trump as a "joke".

On some level, the predictions that had been made this year by "the elites", as the Trumpists like to bash them, deserve even more criticism than their forecasts four years ago, when after all, the notion that the American people would elect as their president a former reality television show host sounded preposterous.

But on the eve of the 2020 election it was clear that a large (albeit not decisive) segment of the electorate approved of the current White House occupant, and that many of the sentiments he promoted on immigration, trade and foreign policy reflected the popula…