Curious Magpie<p>From <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TPM</span></a></p><p>"... The Apprentice isn’t the only, or even the best, prism with which to view Donald Trump’s approach to politics, but it is an essential one. </p><p>Trump is always putting on a show in which he will always be, if not the hero, then at least the strong protagonist, and he needs villains. Lots and lots of villains to vanquish. But not just any villains. He needs villains whose defeat touches the deepest, darkest parts of the American psyche. And so the villains he picks often wind up being people of color, women and foreigners, and what they may lack in actual villainy he makes up for by casting them as derangedly violent or sexually deviant or otherwise sinister in comic book ways ..."<br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngeles</span></a></p><p><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-stages-another-boffo-reality-tv-episode-in-la-park" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-</span><span class="invisible">memo/trump-stages-another-boffo-reality-tv-episode-in-la-park</span></a></p>