Campaign 2016 will generate years of scholarly analysis, as most expert pundits missed their mark by a wide margin. Few foresaw the advent of a Trump “movement,” the long-rumored but never quite completed realignment of the white working class, or the stunning demise of the vaulted Clinton Money Machine. This race was more a WWE grudge match than a political campaign – no surprise to millions of wrestling fans who watched the future president of the United States forcibly shave the head of Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania 23.
But “leader of the free world” is not a scripted production. The Oval Office now replaces the rectangular ring. Here, the challenges are quite real. And the bad guys enter not with masks and chairs but with cyber attacks and ballistic missiles.
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