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5upplied_demand • yesterday at 4:54 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

He gave over $60 million to his own campaign and used his existing celebrity to get media coverage 24/7.


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lotsofpulp • yesterday at 7:20 PM

>that hardly proves the power of the common man.

What I meant was the 2016 Repub primaries are evidence that the common man votes for who they want, not who the large donors want. The Repub party leadership and previous decision makers were usurped, and hence the idea of MAGA supplanting the Republican Party. More evidence is Dick Cheney and the Bush family becoming quickly irrelevant.