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  • This is the bluster of a phony: Donald Trump represents rage and rudeness, not populism (barf-alert)

    01/10/2016 4:53:26 PM PST · by ObamahatesPACoal · 64 replies
    Salon.com ^ | 15 Dec 2015 | Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
    For a moment, earlier this year, Donald Trump was being taken seriously for his supposed straight talk, the idea being that he said what others were thinking but were held back from saying because of political correctness or some such thing. (SNIP) “The Donald” is theatrical on some (boorish) level, intentionally going without a Hollywood hairstylist or a politician’s conventional coiffure. Remember the felonious Rep. James Traficant of Ohio and his noteworthy hairstyle? It worked for him, too. He got noticed. (SNIP) Trump is a caricature of a populist, come to life, who exists before the television camera and for...