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anamnua

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Sun May 1, 2016, 04:27 PM May 2016

A horrible feeling [View all]

Donald Trump is a brash, ludicrously self-confident, charismatic, narcissistic, irreverent, vainglorious challenger, who defies all the conventional rules and thrives on self-generated controversy. He affixes his own pet, insulting sobriquets to his opponents ('lying' Ted,'crooked' Hillary...). He psychs his opponents out by his own unique combination of braggadocio and verbal guerilla war.
He is the arch self-promoter and self-publicist and magnetically draws media attention.
His clown's mask belies a penetrating intelligence. He has a habit of confounding the pundits by decking one opponent after another.
In light of all of this one comparison sticks out like a sore thumb: Mohammad Ali (aka Cassius Clay). I've a horrible feeling Hillary may end up as Sonny Liston to Trump's Ali/Clay.

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