Trump is not an unexpected, unlikely presence on the centre stage of US politics, he is merely the latest representative of a well-established type: The Outsider. I was still a child in 1977, when Jimmy Carter won power, largely by presenting himself as The Outsider. Until Donald Trump came along, Barack Obama was the most unlikely candidate to have ever won the presidency. Not only was he a Black man with a Muslim middle name, he built his platform around the promise of disrupting Washington politics. By burning his bridges with the establishment, Trump seems to have removed any likelihood of crossing over to the other side once in office.

Source: Mint September 27, 2016 18:45 UTC