i'm mel lisa cane, politics recorder for cbs 5 division division in san francisco and it's my pleasure to introduce our distinguished speaker, p.j. o'rourke, the author of this new book "how the hell did this happen: the election of 2016" he was born and raised in to lead to, ohio, and attend its miami university and johns hopkins and began writing fun funny things in the 1960s and then spent 20 years reporting for "rolling stone" and the atlantic monthly, going to wars, riots riots and rebellions rebellionse calls holidays in hell. has la bryant on politics, cars, economics. he lives in new england. a long time die-hard republican, pj endorsed hillary clinton for president in 2016. declaring that america was suffering from, quote, the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the say. he witch trials 1692. one reviewer wrote, his he's acknowledge original thicker in ancient text. you can't google his stuff because it's not there yet, which i the highest compliment this day and age. so welcome back the ungooglable, p.j. o'rourke. [applause] >> it's been a great year for political re