http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/opinion/sunday/donald-trumps-disturbia.html?ref=opinionDonald Trump’s Disturbia
[Maureen Dowd]
Maureen Dowd JULY 23, 2016
CLEVELAND — LIKE any masterly comic book villain, Donald Trump is reveling in conjuring a dystopia. And it’s a natural progression, given that he got this far by reveling in conjuring a diss-topia.
Both of his barbed-wire universes were on display here last week.
Trump did not slay a dragon in the way that presidential contenders did in the old days with laurels from the battlefield. In his mythmaking, he slayed 16 dragons on the debate stage.
Ivanka offered her father’s hero-myth at the beginning of her convention speech Thursday night: “He prevailed against a field of 16 very talented competitors.”
And how did the political tyro accomplish this seemingly impossible feat?
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