Very good article by a conservative Daniel Hannan on Orange Glorious.
"They will soon be calling me MR BREXIT!" Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday.
I worked for 26 years to make Brexit happen. I wrote the book on why Britain should leave the EU. I appointed the campaign director who won us the referendum.
Mr. Trump, you're no Mr. Brexit.
Here's the difference: The Brexit campaign was upbeat, civil and forward-looking. We weren't afraid of global markets; we wanted to embrace them. Far from opposing a free trade deal with China, we wanted to leave the EU so that we could sign one. We didn't argue that Britain needed to be "made" great again. We think our country is pretty great now, thank you very much. For what it's worth, most of us think the same of your country.
Anger takes a candidate only so far. You can rail against immigration and K-street lobbying and manifold Clinton abominations, and plenty of people will cheer at your rallies. But even those voters who agree individually with every point you're making will often be put off by your negativity. Americans, perhaps more than any other people on Earth, are optimists. They want their candidates to offer something better.
I think Trump's Delphic Tweet was supposed to be about winning elections unexpectedly. We Brexit campaigners certainly did that. On polling day, the bookies' odds implied an 18 percent probability of a vote to leave, 82 percent to remain.
But Donald Trump is not going to win unexpectedly. He is going to lose wretchedly.
Hannan hits the nail on the head, the malignant narcissist is going to lose. The only question left is who will he blame for his colossal failure?
