And it is one of the conundrums I have about doing this podcast about the work that I do writ large around democracy. And it's that I completely grant that Trump is a unicorn of sort of American politics in his ability to be an extraordinary salesman of bad. And he has, he, he is savvy. He has this Barnum and Bailey quality, merged with a, you know, Huey Long, you know, populism with a dollop of Stalin. (39:39–39:51)
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Asserts that Donald Trump has a unique ability in American politics to effectively sell negative ideas.
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