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Donald Trump from afar

Stefan Dolgert (Brock): The Praise of Ressentiment: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Donald Trump (and more). Trump has transformed how Republicans view “free trade”. Donald Trump and immigration, explained: Donald Trump led a revolution on immigration within the GOP — he can’t stop it now. Can Donald Trump really round up and deport 11 million people? Donald Trump is making the border wall less popular. The world is full of walls that don’t work — why would Donald Trump want to build another one? There’s just one flaw in Donald Trump’s new plan to show he’s not racist. Getting beaten by a girl: Ana Marie Cox on the sexism behind Trump’s whining. Saying Donald Trump is totally unlike mainstream Republicans could be the best way to beat them. Judgment Day is coming for those who stay silent on Donald Trump.

“I spent 5 years with some of Trump’s biggest fans. Here’s what they won’t tell you”: Arlie Russell Hochschild on how Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage. Emily Jane Fox on the billionaire father-daughter team behind Trump’s apocalyptic turn (and more). Greg Sargent on Trump’s real endgame: A white nationalist media empire? Ronald Radosh: “Steve Bannon, Trump’s top guy, told me he was ‘a Leninist’ who wants to ‘destroy the state’” and the conservative establishment. The psychiatric question: Is it fair to analyze Donald Trump from afar? Charles Homans on how Donald Trump blew up the “gaffe”. Transcribers’ agony: Frustrated not by what Trump says but how he says it. Scott McLemee examines the quite serious — and surprisingly abundant — scholarship on Donald Trump’s The Apprentice. Amazingly, Donald Trump’s new app is not a joke.