1. I want to build a little on something implicit in my article on Trump & the Southern Strategy: https://newrepublic.com/article/130039/southern-strategy-made-donald-trump-possible …
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2. Mainstream USA conservatives are trying to portray Trump as an interloper, an alien, a false conservative, "a cancer" (
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3. I think these attempts to see Trump as an interloper invading GOP & a fake conservative are a serious analytical error.
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4. To treat Trump as an interloper & fake conservative is to ignore the many obvious precursors Trump has in history of Republican party.
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5. Trump himself is aware of precursors and has modelled himself after them. He's cited Wendall Wilkie (businessman as savoir) as model
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