Back in 2011, the feisty right-wing media personality Andrew Breitbart made a prediction about Donald Trump that turned out to be prophetic.Read more here.
"Celebrity is everything in this country," Breitbart said in an appearance on Fox News, calling Trump "not a conservative."
Breitbart, who launched an irreverent, anti-establishment conservative news site that shares his name, said then that Trump's media savvy and his plans for a presidential run should be a warning to the Republican establishment. "If these guys don't learn how to play the media ... we're going to probably get a celebrity candidate."
Breitbart, who died in 2012, was right: Trump has become that celebrity candidate who threatens to redefine conservatism itself. Ignoring establishment orthodoxy, Trump has gained endless TV attention and overpowered establishment opponents, which has threatened to start a civil war over the future of the Republican Party.
But Breitbart did not foresee that the political tensions unleashed within the GOP by Trump's candidacy would consume his own conservative media empire.
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Sunday, March 20, 2016
Andrew Breitbart predicted the rise of Trump
Matt Pearce writes in the L.A. Times,
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