Five Lessons from a Weirdly Watchable Year of Politics

By Chris Cillizza, The Washington Post

This year has been the weirdest, most watchable and most difficult to predict in my two decades of covering politics. Because this is my last column of 2015, I thought I would list the five biggest lessons this year in politics has taught me.

1. Donald Trump is here to stay: Back in June, I wrote a piece on The Fix arguing that Trump couldn’t be a serious presidential candidate because every Republican knew him and two thirds didn’t like him. Somehow - and I am still not totally sure how - Trump changed lots and lots of Republican minds over the past five...