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Trump Is Not the Modern Goldwater
And he won't lead to the next Reagan.
Goldwater had an heir.
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Even Donald Trump no longer thinks Donald Trump will win the election, which is why he is spending so much time talking about the election being rigged and bragging about having gone to an Ivy League school.1477409446712
Campaign coverage at this point has the feeling of a party that has gone on too long, but which still has an hour left on the official clock. Some reporters are gamely trying to keep in the spirit of things, but others are ostentatiously looking at their watches and starting conversations about the shape of a future Clinton presidency, or getting an early jump on the campaign autopsies.