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The media stuff was all that mattered though.
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Trump is a creature of media. Not of ideology.
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I feel like, if you are looking for a straight line, a straight modern line, it goes to Palin.
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Gingrich and talk radio in the mid-90s was an important turning point.
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I don’t understand the Never Trumpers’ fetishization of centrism. It’s as if distance from what they think of as the “center” is de facto bad, regardless of the content of the politics. Progressivism wants more freedom for more ppl. Trumpism wants to hurt ppl. That matters!
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That's right. There are antecedents in the Lindbergh/McCarthy/Nixon group. But Trump is a marketer and promoter and is most directly the spawn of the Atwater/Gingrich/Ailes/Limbaugh marketing and media machine.
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Sounds about right. The unfettered markets to Friedman (and do NOT miss Binyamin Appelbaum's new book, "The Economists' Hour," coming from Little, Brown in September.
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But the media stuff is how he managed to break past GOP orthodoxy while remaining aligned with the base. He offered the base the opportunity to cut out the middle man and vote directly for the crazy talking head. He's no more or less than an old fox news addict with launch codes.
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If we expand the conversation to conservatism without regard to party, Henry Ford was an earlier template for Trump's bigotry than Goldwater/Nixon, with his anti-Semitism, nationalism, ruthless capitalism and vigorous efforts to keep his son, Edsel, out of the military.
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