The big story of 2016 was What a President Trump Would do. Paint us an evolving picture of such a presidency, for a citizen of the US, and a citizen of the world. I asked this question repeatedly. 

Only one pub as far as I know did the story -- the New Yorker. It was a real eye-opener. I expected the author, Evan Osnos, would be on all the shows and there would be lots of follow-ups. Nope. Nothing. Back to the horserace.

When I asked why, the consensus was that the press expects Clinton to be the next president and are treating her thus. So now we have a full dossier (of mostly lies and trivia btw, the press calls these "narratives") on a person who will be a private citizen next year, and know almost nothing about the person who will be president.

That was the story. It was a real juicy one. You just had to take a deep breath and move through your fear. Once he had the Republican nomination, it could no longer be seen as a fluke, the possibility of his presidency had to be taken seriously. It wasn't.

PS: Here's my writeup of the Osnos story, in September.