Our Neutron Bomb Election

[Geee]

National Review:

The shells of our institutions maybe survive the 2016 campaign, but they will be mere husks.

 

The infamous neutron bomb was designed to melt human flesh without damaging infrastructure.

 

Something like it has blown up lots of people in the 2016 election and left behind empty institutions.

 

After the current campaign — the maverick Trump candidacy, the Access Hollywood Trump tape, the FBI scandal, the Freedom of Information Act revelations, the WikiLeaks insider scoops on the Clinton campaign, the hacked e-mails, the fraudulent pay-for-play culture of the Clinton Foundation — the nuked political infrastructure may look the same. But almost everyone involved in the election has been neutroned.

 

In theory, there are nominally still such things as a D.C. establishment, the Republican party, still abstractions known as “fact-checking,” still something in theory called “debate moderators,” still ex-presidents’ “foundations.” But, in fact, after this campaign, these are now mere radiated shells.

 

Who are the big losers of 2016, besides the two candidates themselves?