Ann Coulter is right for once – and it’s bad news for Donald Trump

Why is Ann Coulter attacking Donald Trump today? She sees that the National Republican Senatorial Committee is moving away from Trump’s midterm candidates because it’s their only chance to win, as he’s just that unpopular. Coulter is an opportunist who usually knows which way the right wing wind is about to blow, and she knows Trump is toast, so she’s going at him hard.

Coulter pretends to be an idiot, but she’s really saying strategically dumb and absurd things to get liberals to mock her, so right wingers will then buy her books to “own the libs.” She makes millions by pretending to be a moron, and she laughs all the way to the bank.

Coulter is clearly betting that she can rack up more book sales with right wingers in the coming year by going anti-Trump than she could by going pro-Trump. And she usually guesses right on these things. This is a terrible sign for Trump’s big pipe dream about a magic comeback.

Most of you view Ann Coulter as an annoying punchline and wish she’d go away. I also wish she’d go away, but that’s not going to happen. Since we’re stuck with her, I use her as a barometer for where right wing sentiment is heading next. The things she’s saying now are the things that the racist idiot at the end of the bar will be saying in six months. She’s useful in that way, if certainly not in any other way.