Vindication and virality.

The Republican candidacy of Donald Trump - what to speak of his victory in the presidential election itself - was such an outlandish prospect, that it had been completely written off from the moment he had announced his intention to run.

The conservative media in the US accuse their liberal counterparts of being out of touch with the ground realities but it was the same conservative media that had written him off. The liberal media were simply deferring to their judgment since the likes of Fox would presumably know more about the average Joe conservative voter that the Republican Party seeks to represent.

In one internal election process after the other, Trump bulldozed through all expectations, despite what most of the punditry were saying. Once he finally won the party's candidacy, and later, when he won the election, videos of renegade pundits predicting his candidacy and victory emerged. These were individuals, very few in number, who had predicted this on news programs, while their co-panelists laughed at them.

Online readers can hear in the video below the guffaws of the host and other guest when US Congressman Keith Ellison called a Trump candidacy.

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