Michelle Obama: “…the world as it should be.” In 2008, the aspiring First Lady was accused by bloggers of lifting lines for her DNC speech from Saul Alinsky. Alinsky wrote, in Rules for Radicals (emphasis added): “The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.”
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/08/michelle_obama_4.html
Michelle was (rightly!) in trouble for using the ideas, not whole complete passages, of a communist. And the problem right now isn’t whether or not anybody else has plagiarized. In schools these days every student paper submitted is fed into a program which google-searches pre-existing text. My wife the expert, who deals with these cases all the time, said a student would have a hard time fighting disciplinary action for this amount of direct appropriation. Wishful thinking does us no good: the speech was copied, word for word, and Trump needs to find out and purge whomever was responsible.