Meacham: Trump Candidacy ‘Feeling More Like George Wallace’

‘Anger is a great starter, it’s not very good finisher’

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GEIST: "Let’s bring in Jon Meacham, he’s been waiting patiently. Jon, I think people were waiting Friday night to see what Donald Trump was going to say and do in reaction to what we saw in Chicago. He got on the phone with Chris Matthews and basically did what I just said which is to blame the protesters and say “This is why we have to keep fight P because of people like this.”
MEACHAM: "Right. Anger is a great starter, it’s not very good finisher."
BRZEZINSKI: "Well put."
MEACHAM: "I think joe analogy is a good one on the day trading. A lot of us have said this is almost analogy proof, the whole trump phenomenon, because you had the case of a protest candidate in the midst of taking over a major party. It was like a hijacking that passengers joined the hijacker and we’re all in favor of it for a while. Now it’s feeling more like George Wallace. It’s feeling more like a traditional protest candidacy that plays to extremes in order to drive both media attention and the passion of a disaffected minority. And presidents of the united States cannot simply be the embodiment of the disaffections of a minor. They have to represent the aspirations of a majority and that’s the jump that trump has failed to make."

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