THE ONE SENTENCE THAT EXPLAINS WASHINGTON DYSFUNCTION.

Spoiler alert: “The political class never expected Donald Trump to become president,” Matthew Continetti writes at the Washington Free Beacon, proving that William Goldman’s maxim about Hollywood that “Nobody knows anything…… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one,” is true about America’s other town full of preening theatrical performers as well.