Fintan O'Toole: The Irish priest who paved way for Donald Trump
Donald Trump is often said to be unprecedented in American history, and in some respects he is. But not entirely.
There is one other demagogue in the age of mass democracy and mass media who paved the way for Trump. Though he never got all the way to the White House, he was for a period an immensely influential political figure. His contemporary, the American novelist Wallace Stenger, described him in terms that apply equally to Trump: “a shifty manipulator of the truth and a man ambitious for personal power”.
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