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The demises of Ted Cruz and John Kasich’s primary campaigns almost certainly assure, in the absence of some intervening event or act of God, that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for President. More importantly, they present the opportunity to recall which political commentators insisted that Trump could never, ever be the nominee. Dozens and dozens (and dozens) of people got Trump’s chances wrong, but if you were to identify the wrongest commentator, you would be hard-pressed to find a better candidate than New York Times’ columnist and National Review film critic Ross Douthat.

To commemorate Douthat’s awesome predictive power and belief that saying the same thing over and over again will make it true, we’ve collected and celebrate the following Douthat predictions that Trump would not go on to be the Republican nominee.

Here we go:

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We’ve reached out to Douthat for comment on his Trump predictions, and will update this post if we hear back. In the meantime, we’re curious: What were the worst Bad Trump Predictions? Hop into the comments to tell us, or drop us a line.