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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
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      6. It's part of Trump's "brand" that he's dominant figure: the best at business, smarter than everyone, the guy with the hottest wife etc

      8 replies 21 retweets 34 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
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      7. This contempt for his followers is big reason why I think description of Trump as "populist" is wrong and lazy.

      3 replies 40 retweets 63 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      8. The great populists, whether on left or right, don't scorn average person but claim to be avatar for them: to embody what them.

      3 replies 28 retweets 51 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
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      9. You'd be hard pressed to find such contempt for followers in William Jennings Bryan or Father Coughlin or even George Wallace.

      5 replies 11 retweets 23 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
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      10. Trump isn't selling himself as avatar of common person but as a leader, an exceptional person who can fix problems other's can't.

      9 replies 25 retweets 46 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
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      11. Part of the proof of Trump's exceptionalness is he can say things that almost nobody else would dare to. Insults, even threaten violence

      6 replies 15 retweets 26 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
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      12. Even the weirdness of Trump has repeatedly talking about wanting to date his daughter is connected. Only an ubermench would dare do that

      4 replies 14 retweets 27 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
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      13. I don't think it's widely understood that Trump has repeatedly claimed that he's exceptional because of his genetic inheritance.

      5 replies 23 retweets 34 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
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      14. Trump: "Well I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene...I'm a gene believer"

      4 replies 11 retweets 19 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
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      15. Trump: "hey when you connect two race horses you get usually end up with a fast horse." http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/02/11/donald.trump.marriage.apprentice/ …

      2 replies 9 retweets 9 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016

      16. So: I guy who thinks he should run the country because of his superior genes and likes to assert dominance over followers. Populism?

      9:02 PM - 23 Jan 2016
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jan 2016
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          17. There are various words that one could use to describe what Trump is selling. Authoritarianism is perhaps most neutral. But not populism

          6 replies 28 retweets 60 likes
        3. David J. Loehr‏ @dloehr 23 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet This is all spot on, sir.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. Daniel Dale‏Verified account @ddale8 23 Jan 2016
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          Daniel Dale Retweeted Daniel Dale

          @HeerJeet here's another example:https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/684543679462305792 …

          Daniel Dale added,

          Daniel DaleVerified account @ddale8
          Donald Trump shouting just now: "I'm winning with the smart people! I'm winning with the not-so-smart people!"
          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
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        2. Eric Kleefeld‏ @EricKleefeld 23 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet Earlier in his life, Tommy Douglas was an advocate of eugenics. He dropped it by the time he became a politician.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Eric Kleefeld‏ @EricKleefeld 23 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet Ah, just checked: Douglas was a eugenicist as late as 1934, he ran provincially, lost. Was elected to federal parliament in 1935.

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        1. Barbara Kirk‏ @barbara19261 24 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet Hitler?

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