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wiggs

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3. ...also in a hyper consumerism age of social media, advertising, marketing, corporate dominance...

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Wed May 4, 2016, 09:18 PM

May 2016

....could have foreseen that the ultimate used car salesman would do well.

He's a direct descendant of the 'me generation' materialistic 80's followed by fear mongering and hate politics of the decades since.

For those familiar with the great science fiction 'Foundation' series, you could have put all the social and economic factors into Foundation's predictive computers and think tanks and they would have expected Trump sooner or later.

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Now that we think about it, the natural GOP nominee to follow the first black wiggs May 2016 #2

...also in a hyper consumerism age of social media, advertising, marketing, corporate dominance... wiggs May 2016 #3