I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor
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| Thursday, Mar 10, 2016 06:01 AM EST | Camille Paglia
I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too) Yes, he remains thin-skinned and easily riled. But
his fearlessness and brash energy also seem necessary and rare Camille Paglia I’m dying for an update from you on Donald Trump. Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.” Do you still feel the same? If you loved Trump, would Salon even let you proclaim it? I mean, they’re kind of as liberal as they come, no? Why can’t there be a party that is basically Republican, but minus...
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I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor
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salon.com ^
| Thursday, Mar 10, 2016 06:01 AM EST | Camille Paglia
I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too) Yes, he remains thin-skinned and easily riled. But
his fearlessness and brash energy also seem necessary and rare Camille Paglia I’m dying for an update from you on Donald Trump. Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.” Do you still feel the same? If you loved Trump, would Salon even let you proclaim it? I mean, they’re kind of as liberal as they come, no? Why can’t there be a party that is basically Republican, but minus...
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I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia
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Salon ^
| March 10,2016 | CAMILLE PAGLIA
From my perspective as a fervent supporter of the ruggedly honest and principled Bernie Sanders, Trump with his pragmatic real-life record is a far more palatable national figure than Ted Cruz, whose unctuous, vainglorious professions of Christian piety don’t pass the smell test. Trump
is a blunt, no-crap mensch, while Cruz is a ham actor, doling out fake compassion like chopped liver. Cruz’s lugubrious, weirdly womanish face, with its prim, tight smile and mawkishly appealing puppy-dog eyebrows, is like a waxen mask, always on the verge of melting. This guy doesn’t know who the hell he is—and the White House...
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I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia
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Salon ^
| March 10,2016 | CAMILLE PAGLIA
From my perspective as a fervent supporter of the ruggedly honest and principled Bernie Sanders, Trump with his pragmatic real-life record is a far more palatable national figure than Ted Cruz, whose unctuous, vainglorious professions of Christian piety don’t pass the smell test. Trump
is a blunt, no-crap mensch, while Cruz is a ham actor, doling out fake compassion like chopped liver. Cruz’s lugubrious, weirdly womanish face, with its prim, tight smile and mawkishly appealing puppy-dog eyebrows, is like a waxen mask, always on the verge of melting. This guy doesn’t know who the hell he is—and the White House...
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I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor
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Salon ^
| Mar 10, 2016 | Camille Paglia
* Well, Trump may still be a carnival barker, but he’s looking more and more like a president! Along
with most media pundits in the Northeast, I found it improbable if not impossible that Trump could survive his klutz-o-rama cascade of foot-in-mouth flubs, from carelessly categorizing Mexican immigrants as rapists to hallucinating about “thousands’ of Muslims cheering the fall of the twin towers from the mean streets of New Jersey. Surely he would soon implode and pouf into fairy dust! But only a few weeks after that interview of mine in Salon, I suddenly realized that Trump’s candidacy had a...
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I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor
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Salon ^
| Mar 10, 2016 | Camille Paglia
* Well, Trump may still be a carnival barker, but he’s looking more and more like a president! Along
with most media pundits in the Northeast, I found it improbable if not impossible that Trump could survive his klutz-o-rama cascade of foot-in-mouth flubs, from carelessly categorizing Mexican immigrants as rapists to hallucinating about “thousands’ of Muslims cheering the fall of the twin towers from the mean streets of New Jersey. Surely he would soon implode and pouf into fairy dust! But only a few weeks after that interview of mine in Salon, I suddenly realized that Trump’s candidacy had a...
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I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia [snip]
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Salon ^
| 3/10/2016 | Camilli Paglia
[ ... Trump with his pragmatic real-life record is a far more palatable national figure than Ted Cruz, whose unctuous, vainglorious professions of Christian piety don’t pass the smell test. Trump
is a blunt, no-crap mensch, while Cruz is a ham actor, doling out fake compassion like chopped liver. Cruz’s lugubrious, weirdly womanish face, with its prim, tight smile and mawkishly appealing puppy-dog eyebrows, is like a waxen mask, always on the verge of melting. This guy doesn’t know who the hell he is—and the White House is no place for him and us to find out. ...]
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