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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Naw, the U.S. has a long history of enthusiasm for populist demagogues. Huey Long. Father Coughlin. Joseph McCarthy. George Wallace. We just don't have much of a cultural memory of politics before about 1968.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
That's what Nelson Rockefeller thought in '64, and Barry Goldwater trounced him. |
We aren't even in the campaign season yet.
I am wholly prepared to eat my words regarding trump, and I may even be looking foward to being wrong, but I do not get the sense that he's a legitimate candidate. If Trump TRULY is a legitimate Candidate, god helps us all.