2016 Elections

Trump and Trump Protesters Feed Off Each Other

The candidate scores points when liberals try to disrupt him. They score points when he rails against them.

Today's young protesters don't remember 1968.

Photographer: Scott Olson/Getty Images

I know you’d like to read about something other than Donald Trump. I’d sure like to write that column. But we shouldn't look away from this slow-motion train wreck. It is turning American politics into something we formerly read about only in international news pages or history books.

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