Political analysts and pundits genuinely baffle me sometimes with how distant from reality their observations can be. Not even in a particular direction--the fact that there are pundits that both know how to read
and insist that people like Ted Cruz or Donald "flotsam head" Trump wouldn't turn the White House into an open sewer doesn't surprise me, because in most cases there's a clear reason why that particular person would behave this way (money or hatred of brown people, usually). But with another presidential election coming up, people are starting to talk about how _______ candidate can persuade voters outside of their expected constituency.
Donald "wood grain" Trump will never win any discerning moderate voters, they might say, or
Bernie Sanders' economic policies will persuade some Trump supporters, or
you can tell I'm a pundit because it's a well-known fact that pundits only speak in italics. The vocal surgery that lets us do this is very expensive, so we're going to use it every chance we get.