Donald Trump - Steve Pope/Getty Images Donald Trump was a joke until he wasn't. The nominating contests brought forth innumerable champions to assail him as a demagogue, a fantasist, a misogynist, a racist, a narcissist, a fascist, an isolationist, a bully and a liar, and he surfed the tidal wave of contempt all the way to the Republican nomination.Bernie Sanders was a throwback to the twenties until he wasn’t. In May, he arrived at 1968 to replay the year in Chicago when young protesters from the Democratic Party’s Far Left disrupted the convention and got clobbered in a police riot. Bernie’s protesters at the Nevada convention in Las Vegas in May were more restrained -- if you regard a thrown chair, screaming about the female anatomy, and inciting death threats as democratic discourse in support of democratic socialism.Trump and Sanders, the scratch duo of Right – Left Populists, ganged up against Hillary Clinton. She was on her way to a coronation until she wasn’t quite. She kept...
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