Barney Frank: Trump ‘Does Not Have an Appeal Besides Exploiting Anger’

FRANK: “That he is? No, I think he‘s temporarily changed it. I was afraid beforehand, but there was a period, as I said, when we thought he was a joke and then people were shocked when the joke won the election, and it turned out that he was able to exploit anger. And people assumed that that one talent he had showed that he was a brilliant strategist across the board. No, it turned out to show that he is a an idiot savant. He was good at one thing and terrible at everything else. So that gives me some hope because he is going to show up with bad results. I say in the book early on, the fate of liberal democracy versus authoritarian populism will depend in part on how Donald Trump does. And if he does badly, that discredits the whole operation. I‘m convinced that, uh he does not have an appeal besides exploiting anger. But he‘s so angry and his politics is so determined by this anger that he doesn‘t see that. And, uh, so that‘s why I think he‘s imploding.”

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Barney Frank: Trump ‘Does Not Have an Appeal Besides Exploiting Anger’‘He‘s so angry and his politics is so determined by this anger that he doesn‘t see that’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:FRANK: “That he is? No, I think he‘s temporarily changed it. I was afraid beforehand, but there was a period, as I said, when we thought he was a joke and then people were shocked when the joke won the election, and it turned out that he was able to exploit anger. And people assumed that that one talent he had showed that he was a brilliant strategist across the board. No, it turned out to show that he is a an idiot savant. He was good at one thing and terrible at everything else. So that gives me some hope because he is going to show up with bad results. I say in the book early on, the fate of liberal democracy versus authoritarian populism will depend in part on how Donald Trump does. And if he does badly, that discredits the whole operation. I‘m convinced that, uh he does not have an appeal besides exploiting anger. But he‘s so angry and his politics is so determined by this anger that he doesn‘t see that. And, uh, so that‘s why I think he‘s imploding.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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