Trump showed voters the con behind the curtain

I remember telling our son that Donald Trump was going to win.

This was before the ride down the escalator 11 years ago this week — before the rallies, investigations, indictments, impeachments, and endless outrage that would dominate American political life for the next decade.

‘The first guy through the wall — he always gets bloody.’

“Washington’s not prepared,” I told him. “Americans are so angry, so frustrated, and so convinced that nobody is listening to them that they are going to send Donald Trump to Washington.”

I was not predicting policy. I was describing a mood.

Americans had spent years listening to politicians from both parties promise action on border security, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, government waste, trade deficits, and manufacturing losses. Election followed election. Promise followed promise. The problems