Trump is latest in long line of demagogues

September 3, 2015

No one has been more affected by the surge of Donald Trump in the polls than the pundits who obsess with elections. Much ink has been spilled trying to answer questions like “What does it mean?” and “What does it say about us as a country?” The one thing it says to anyone familiar with the history of demagogic presidential candidates is that the more things change, they more they stay the same.

Column by Stuart Shapiro in On The Hill, September 3

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