Mona Charen

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.

So...

Yes.

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.