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[–] Stovetop 33 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

With his small town, egalitarian rallies and appeals to “the forgotten man and woman,” he has revived the term populism in the political lexicon and gone further with it than anyone since Bryan’s heyday.

And this is how it happens. The moment Trump launches an investigation into PBS and NPR, they start kowtowing to his every demand and saying whatever he wants to hear in order to keep their funding.