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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg cover image

How to Bury a Billionaire

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

CHAPTER

The Irony of Where the GOP Is Today

I think Donald Trump's support is based in large part, not entirely, but in large part by the widespread view that he is the guy who can take on these powerful institutions. The fact that he is as popular as he is and has been as successful as he is is proof that those institutions aren't very powerful because if the establishment could have stopped him, it would have, right? If the GOP was a fraction of the party, it should be. It would have prevented him from becoming president. He would have been impeached this first impeachment. Never mind the second impeachment. But now we're getting kind of like Superman versus the whole kind of fantasizing. I think this is where

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