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Donald Trump reveals ugly truth of today’s politics

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57% Informative

Donald Trump's political career has been, however grim it may be to acknowledge it, a stunning success.

He has been convicted of multiple felonies, has been found by a court to have raped a woman and has been disowned by his former vice-president and national security adviser.

But remarkably, he has remained politically viable through a series of quite extraordinary scandals.

This will be the case whether he is heading for the White House or not.

People simply don’t care about scandals anywhere near as much as journalists and politicians do.

Major scandals are hardly noticed because the protagonists are the protagonists completely unknown.

Far from his contempt for democracy being politically ruinous, it actually attracts many voters.

An alarming number of people don’t care at all about liberal democratic norms as long as things are all right for them.

And they rather think “strongman” rule might be a better idea than rule by squabbling politicians.

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68

Informative language

69

Neutral language

51

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

39

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

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short-lived

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