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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.
Mark Shields
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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Mark Stephen Shields
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Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.
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