The art of the demagogue
The Republican Party regularly sees insurgents in its primaries. A self-funding one who seems capable of saying almost anything, though, is something new
DONALD TRUMP is not going to be America’s next president. The vagaries of the electoral college notwithstanding, the next occupant of the Oval Office will be someone who wins a lion’s share of the 130m or so ballots cast in November next year. And though Mr Trump has spent weeks leading the field of Republicans with White House ambitions, no survey suggests that 60m Americans, or indeed anything like that number, are willing to vote for him.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “The art of the demagogue”
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