Mona Charen
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But with the rise of Trump, I saw the destruction of pretty much everything that- Let me pause there.
I was a Romney supporter.
I felt that Obama was a bad president.
I didn't agree with a lot of the things that he did.
I liked that Romney, I remember when Romney was asked which industries the U.S.
should be backing as the industries of the future.
And he said, I don't know.
And he said, no one else knows either.
I loved that.
You know, that kind of modesty about what government can do or no.
I liked all of that.
No, not a bit.
And I remember, I think it was the Huffington Post said that they were going to only cover him in their entertainment coverage, not in their political coverage.
And I thought that was about right.
When he continued to dominate the polls, when I saw that even the grotesque... There are a few things that stand out, of course, but the threatening violence against protesters at his rallies, mocking a handicapped reporter...
scorning John McCain's heroism, all of those things that I thought would have disqualified him obviously didn't.
And I began to worry.
And then I remember the primaries in 2015 really gave me chills that, or I guess it would have been 2016 by then.