Donald Trump Forces Us to Relive the 1980s

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Donald Trump Rides a Wave of Warped '80s Nostalgia

The reality TV star's presidential campaign has a "distinctly '80s feel," according to conservative commentator Nick Adams, who envisions Trump as "the ultimate action hero." But Leonid Bershidsky argues that his message evokes the dying days of the Soviet Union more than Reagan's "Morning in America."