Iowans voted this week in the Republican primary race, which shouldn’t mean very much. Iowa’s population is 3.2 million, about one percent of the total United States. There are 2,083,000 registered voters there, with 718,000 registered Republican. Only 110,298 voted in the caucus, and 56,260 voted for Donald Trump — about 2.7 percent of Iowa’s registered voters.

But Iowa represents a tremendous psychological victory for Trump. Not a ho-hum, but a harbinger of things to come.

Mainers like to brag that “as Maine goes, so goes the Nation,” but Iowa hardly enjoys the same bellwether status. Winners of the GOP Iowa caucus have included Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, whose candidacies went nowhere. Yet there is the bandwagon effect leading people I respect to tell us not to be in denial, predicting that Trump will be the Republican nominee.

CNN entrance polls helped explain the worldview of Iowa voters who braved subzero temperatures to go to the polls:

• Do you think Biden legitimately won in 2020? Yes: 30 percent, No: 65 percent
• Is Trump fit for presidency if convicted of a crime? Yes: 64 percent, No: 31 percent
• Are immigrants “poisoning the blood of the country”? Yes: 81 percent

It boggles the mind that any thinking citizen would support Trump, whose principal plank is chaos. Trump is not running for anything;........

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