George Will must think polling data.....................

...................means something in 2016, as he spends a whole column on the cliff that Donald Trump is about to drive over.   George should get out more, or at least talk with Nate Silver.  Will's opinion piece, though, did contain one important paragraph:


Healy analyzes the delusion of “redemption through presidential politics.” The infantilization of America is apparent in the presidency becoming a semi-sacerdotal office, one that conflates spiritual yearnings and magical thinking about wonders performed by executive power. Trump, with his coarse character and fanciful promises, is an antidote to such superstitions.


That is really well said.