Brendan Nyhan

Month: March 2016

  • New NYT: The triggers for Trumpism

    From my new Upshot column: There is no one quite like Donald Trump — as either a human being or a presidential candidate. While he has been compared to populist insurgents like George Wallace and Ross Perot, neither came as close to the presidency as Mr. Trump will be if he secures the G.O.P. nomination.

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  • How we got here on Trump: A tweetstorm

    [View the story “Brendan Nyhan on the mutifactorial institutional failures that lead to Donald Trump” on Storify]

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