Tag: jonathan chait
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There are innumerable reasons to object to Donald Trump as a human being and prospective president of the United States. But yesterday, President Obama picked a strange one: that Trump is a phony populist. http://nym.ag/29gjJts
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http://nym.ag/28Pm3Yq It’s plain to many people that American politics has gone badly off the rails if we have reached the point where a bigoted and hyperbolically unqualified reality-television star can win a major-party nomination. http://nym.ag/28Pm3Yq
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http://nym.ag/28KzEdB “We’re going to try and raise over a billion dollars which is what’s going to be necessary,” Donald Trump said last month. If campaign fundraising was like income, Trump would be boasting that he has already raised well over a billion dollars. http://nym.ag/28KzEdB
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http://nym.ag/28J3LCb Sixteen years have passed since Ralph Nader’s third-party candidacy diverted enough left-wing votes to make George W. Bush president. http://nym.ag/28J3LCb
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http://nym.ag/1UlmsiX Donald Trump is the first major-party nominee whose basic motive is the subject of sincere curiosity. Every other figure who secured the nomination of one of the two main governing parties clearly did so as part of a plan to get elected president. It is possible that this is…