The Most Important Thing to Remember About Donald Trump is This

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29. Exactly.

Trump is the ulcerative lesion of the authoritarian cancer that has always infected the US body politic. Before Trump there was Reagan. Before Reagan there was the Businessmen's Plot. Before that the authoritarian governments of the slave states.

When I listen to Trump I hear the same ideas that I heard growing up in Texas a half century ago, even if Trump is often incoherent and self-contradicting.

The hard truth is, even with excellent Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates, and the Republicans' candidates being by far the most buffoonish and corrupt presidential candidate and one of the least well-thought of vice presidential candidates, the Democratic party is having to fight tooth and nail to maintain parity. If we manage to win, education of the electorate must begin immediately. The cancer didn't start with Trump and it won't end when we rid ourselves of him.