[BITList] Americans need President Trump. He is their spirit animal of extremes | Comment is free | The Guardian

[Michael Feltham]

> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/17/donald-trump-presidency-candidacy-spirit-extremes-worst-of-america?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 <http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/17/donald-trump-presidency-candidacy-spirit-extremes-worst-of-america?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2>
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> Americans need President Trump. He is their spirit animal of extremes
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> When I was a kid, growing up in New York in the late 80s, Donald Trump just seemed part of the deal if you lived in the city, like bed bugs or head lice. All that hair, all that wealth and the obligatory trophy wife – he seemed like a natural part of the landscape of 80s Manhattan. So it is one of the weirder phenomena of my life that, 30 years on, Trump <http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/16/donald-trump-presidential-speech-twitter-reaction> is still, somehow, a presence when other figures from that era have long since faded away: junk bond king Michael Milken <http://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/oct/24/4>, say; or former Salomon Brothers boss John Gutfreund <http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/19/business/ex-salomon-chief-s-costly-battle.html>, whose wife, Susan, once allegedly shut down a whole street to lift a giant Christmas tree by crane into their apartment.
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