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Trump the Disrupter

From Virginia Quarterly Review, Angie Maxwell on Donald Trump and the Lost Cause. Corey Robin on what Donald Trump can learn from Frederick Douglass. Revenge of the Simple: Matt Taibbi on how George W. Bush gave rise to Trump. Michael D’Antonio on the men who gave Trump his brutal worldview: Tutored by his fiercely ambitious father and tough-as-nails high school coach, the GOP frontrunner has only one ethical code — life is combat. Trump the Disrupter: Is America’s democratic system equal to the challenge of an authoritarian president? New light on the limitations and opportunities of presidential leadership: The first chapter from Predicting the Presidency: The Potential of Persuasive Leadership by George C. Edwards. Emily Thorson on 5 political myths Trump is exploding.

Donald John Trump is almost surely going to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party — can he be stopped? The GOP’s nuclear option: Andrew Prokop on how Trump could be denied the nomination even with a majority. Bloodbath alert: Donald Trump issues new threat to destroy the GOP.