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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The Perils of Driving Trump Out of the Race

Donald Trump vs. the Republican Party: Now It’s War (Jonathan Chait) from New York Magazine
"That is why the significance of his performance lies in his deadly serious threat to run a third-party campaign, siphoning off the immigrant-haters and amorphously angry blue-collar whites the actual nominee will need for himself. The intense barrage of pointed questions displayed how seriously Roger Ailes takes Trump’s threat to hijack the GOP for his own end. It failed to reckon with the other threat: that the Republican plan to drive Trump from their party might instead work all too well."

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