Beware the toxic sequel to Donald Trump’s flailing presidential campaign
by Joe Klein
Oct 22, 2016
3 minutes
DONALD TRUMP WILL PROBABLY LOSE THIS ELECTION, which is good news. Here’s the bad news: that loss may be just the beginning of Trump’s toxic presence in American political life. Nightmare scenarios are floating through Republican circles. The best cases posit a bitter and continuing Republican civil war between the Trump and “Establishment” factions of the party. The worst cases involve a clean break, a new right-wing populist party, anchored by a Trump-Breitbart-Ailes media empire.
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