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Columnist names the one man still capable of toppling Trump: 'Hulking, bombastic, gaudy'
Personality as Cover for PowerThe Wrong FightThe reporting premise here is a mismatch: it turns a structural fight over democracy into a fantasy matchup about two former presidents. The source centers Ezra Klein’s argument that Barack Obama would be the ideal counterweight to Donald Trump, with the 22nd Amendment standing in the way. That is a neat media object. It is also a distraction from the actual question: who is using state power, party power, and spectacle to dominate public life right now.Obama is not the answer because he has the right silhouette or the right temperament. Trump’s…
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