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However it ends, Trump’s surge is historic
Boston globe ^ | 19 August, 2015 | Keith Bedford/Globe Staff/File

Posted on 08/20/2015 8:09:04 PM PDT by 11th_VA

DERRY, N.H. — What was once flippantly deemed the Summer of Trump has evolved into something much bigger: a singular moment in American political and cultural history.

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Trump’s candidacy will be a moment that today’s voters will have to explain to their grandchildren.

“What is happening with Trump is not a fluke,” said Harvard government and sociology professor Theda Skocpol, author of “The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism.” “Yes, he is a great entertainer, but he is able to take advantage of a number of dynamics in American politics as they exist right now. This is an important moment.”

Trump is the personification of a 21st century America fascinated by the super rich and obsessed with celebrity, political historians said in interviews.

In politics, his assets provide massive available financing in a national race where money plays an unprecedented role. A hyper-fast media environment means Trump’s candid comments and jaw-dropping insults, such as his jab at US Senator John McCain’s respected military service, permeate Facebook feeds, quickly making him the most-discussed candidate in the field, according to social media analytics.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: New York
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The kids in the photo at the link don't look like old anger white males we've all been hearing about.
1 posted on 08/20/2015 8:09:04 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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I'm getting old ... Boston Globe Link
2 posted on 08/20/2015 8:11:17 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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Trump is the personification of a 21st century America fascinated by the super rich and obsessed with celebrity

Nope. Give it another shot.

3 posted on 08/20/2015 8:14:41 PM PDT by inkfarmer
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Obsessed by the ultra rich. Is she serious? The ultra rich dominate politics and government, and that is what people are rebelling against.


4 posted on 08/20/2015 8:14:45 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: 11th_VA

Trump’s success does’t have anything to do with public anger at the direction our current elected representatives are taking us or the fact that liberal scolds have their jackboots on our necks, nah.


5 posted on 08/20/2015 8:17:33 PM PDT by skeeter
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Obsessed by the ultra rich. Is she serious?

Yeah, I felt I had to post the first part of the article ... but I do think it is historic. I'll be handing out Trump bumper stickers tomorrow ...

6 posted on 08/20/2015 8:17:40 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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To: 11th_VA

How ever it ends, Trump has already done the country a great service.


7 posted on 08/20/2015 8:20:17 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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He certainly has the GOPe sweating. He’s also put immigration on the front burner.


8 posted on 08/20/2015 8:22:04 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Trump is the personification of a 21st century America fascinated by the super rich and obsessed with celebrity

Nope. Give it another shot.

i think trump is saying fu to his super rich buddies. I think he is saying that he loves america and has staked some of his fortune and honor to defend it. people Ben Franklyn did air baths in is front window. he was not perfect. but helped create a perfect union. why cuz there was us to help him and the other do it.


9 posted on 08/20/2015 8:26:18 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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Trump is like no other Presidential candidate in recent memory. His no holes barred straightforward answers is refreshing.


10 posted on 08/20/2015 8:27:49 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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i think trump is saying fu to his super rich buddies. I think he is saying that he loves america and has staked some of his fortune and honor to defend it. people Ben Franklin did air baths in is front window. he was not perfect. but helped create a perfect union. why cuz there was us to help him and the other do it. no idea where the y came from.


11 posted on 08/20/2015 8:28:39 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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i think trump is saying fu to his super rich buddies

I do too. He's in his late 60's, achieved everything, restores hotels, and decided to take on restoring America - why not.

12 posted on 08/20/2015 8:29:33 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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I am older. Looked for it three times.


13 posted on 08/20/2015 8:29:37 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: BigEdLB

Trump is like no other Presidential candidate in recent memory. His no holes barred straightforward answers is refreshing.
His no holds barred straightforward answers is refreshing.
free of restrictions or hampering conventions


14 posted on 08/20/2015 8:30:37 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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:)


15 posted on 08/20/2015 8:30:47 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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To: kvanbrunt2

Trump rally at NH High School ...

16 posted on 08/20/2015 8:33:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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To: kvanbrunt2

not sure where the phrase came from from but it sounds like your holds are not barred or shored up so everything is flying around loose in the hold — bottom part of the ship.


17 posted on 08/20/2015 8:33:50 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Just think....if Trump hadn’t come up with the “only Rosie O’Donnell” retort to the dagger Megyn Kelly threw at him she very possibly would have succeeded at taking him out and the talk of reforms to immigration, etc. etc. would have died and we’d be looking at business as usual.

DT actually acknowledged in a recent interview that Rosie, for once, saved him.


18 posted on 08/20/2015 8:34:27 PM PDT by Aria
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"Trump is the personification of a 21st century America fascinated by the super rich and obsessed with celebrity, political historians said..."

Methinks these political hysterians are in the wrong line of work. They've completely missed the meaning of the Trump surge if they think it's all about fascination with uber wealthy celebrities.

19 posted on 08/20/2015 8:35:30 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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I feel very good or better every time he takes a snotty media guy to task throwing ice cold water on them so they wind up speechless shivering!!!


20 posted on 08/20/2015 8:36:27 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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