Getting Rich Off Left-Wing Activism

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With business up and people outraged by President Trump, Left Action founder John Hlinko has purchased a Georgetown home to serve as ‘the path of most resistance.’

Published Feb. 15 2017 1:00AM EST

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John Hlinko’s wife calls it “the house that Trump built.”

They could afford the historic Tudor-style residence in Washington’s tony Georgetown thanks to Donald Trump’s candidacy and the traffic it generates to Left Action, a hub for progressive causes founded by Hlinko, a wannabe stand-up comic who is finding that left-wing...

Eleanor Clift

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Getting Rich Off Left-Wing Activism

With business up and people outraged by President Trump, Left Action founder John Hlinko has purchased a Georgetown home to serve as ‘the path of most resistance.’

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Eleanor Clift