Politics

James Thurber’s Game Plan for the GOP

HARBINGER?

In 1931, the New Yorker humorist wrote a story about a round-the-world flier whose loutish behavior and loose tongue eerily anticipated the boorish Donald Trump.

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Fast-forward to the night of July 20, 2016. Despite all the agonizing, the plotting, the Superpac ads, the embarrassing interviews, the assurances that followed the Wisconsin primary that his days were surely, clearly, numbered, Donald Trump has emerged as the nominee of the Republican Party for president of the United...

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