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In reply to the discussion: Remember when Cornel West tweeted about "Brother Trump"? I do. Reason enough [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)has always been useful for expressing ideas with only a shred of viability as more than they are. Tweets don't enable that verbal forest.
But the man who can no longer get an appointment at Harvard or Princeton in his 60s was a different man when he worked there in his 20s and 30s.
Sarah Palin? Have to confess I don't see it, Dems. Bernie Sanders, though more educated, is the one who strikes me as more of her counterpart. They're both very charismatic and effective motivational speakers but that's mostly all. Both proving astonishingly, shockingly (him anyway) ignorant about how they would accomplish their goals. Whatever you say about what West has made of it, he was very well educated and studied everything he could find on his passions, something we learned the others never did.