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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ya think?
“Mr. Trump’s… policies matter more for the way they create and sustain… [his] persona than they do for their substantive impact… [his persona] is intimately bound up with his anti-institutional posturing, his claim to be the one man who can defeat the system… some of the most institutionally destabilizing aspects of populism — its resort to demagoguery, its threats to liberal norms and its association with corruption — may be inseparable from its core appeal.”