"I saw a demagogue whose life’s work had consisted of shaking down the vulnerable and making their pain profitable."
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That's corporate capitalism, baby.
Donald just does it better than anyone else. In hindsight the hatred of politicians and the love of capitalism, along with the negligence of the comfortable middle class and the suffering of the working class, made the rise of a corporate demagogue inevitable.

  However, I commend this writer for her astute and prescient prediction that Trump would win.
   I well remember how almost everyone here trashed her columns for an entire year. I thought they were very good, But like everyone else in the liberal media, she was one-sided. She tried to make Hillary the winner by refusing to criticize her.  At the same time, protecting the Hillary-Obama cabal of do-nothings and trashing Trump was the way middle class liberals protected themselves from guilt. That did not work. 
   Today they are still unrepentant.