Here’s the Real Reason Everybody Thought Trump Would Lose

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82. You and Ira Flatow

According to NPR itself, in 2015 NPR held its annual correspondents meeting and held a poll to see who thought which of the dozen-plus Republican clowns would win the nomination.

Only Flatow picked Donald Trump. Why?

Science!

Flatow, formerly of the Kraftwerk-themed PBS show Newton's Apple and now presenter of NPR's Science Friday, knows a thing or two about idiots, as they have assailed him and his science-based shows every week for decades.

I don't know if he's offered a detailed statement on why he picked as he did, but we can guess that observation played a huge role. He knows better than most that it is the stupid people, driven by belief rather than facts, who are the politically motivated activists. He surely guessed that it would be those stupid people who would gravitate like moths to flame around Trump's incandescent hatred.

That makes Ira Flatow the smartest guy in the room at NPR, and it makes people like me a little bit dumber, for refusing to take the America's epidemic of stupidity as seriously as it deserves.