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John Yearwood's avatar

All true. But Trump’s appeal to the American psyche is “bad boy.” He breaks the rules, he discards and discredits authority, he’s a rebel without a cause, he’s Tom Sawyer. He’s Hans Solo and his play is Grease. He’s Rooster Cogburn. But, of course, without any redeeming morality. The “bad boy” is the central archetype of American identity. Also, as a fiction, it fails miserably when confronted with reality. But half the nation is still willing to paint Tom’s fence.

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Michael B's avatar

Many times he called CNN fake news then to read this all planned to get people like me to start watching CNN. If tRump hated them I had to love them, right? But then reading this me understand it all $$$ always follow that I still trust BBC more than CNN and MSNBC more than CNN but again Olear you blew my mind out in a very good way...

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