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[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama.
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