: re: The Trump Effect, and How It Spreads

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:14 AM
Subject: re: The Trump Effect, and How It Spreads
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

When father Coughlin railed against the Jews

he wasn't running to be president

and didn't sport orangutans' hairdos

and couldn't yet know Hitler's full intent

but fascism is back in vogue this year

among what we don't call "a certain class"
embracing policies of greed and fear

or whatever spews out of Donald's ass

the Trumpen proletariat fear jobs

too often go to those born overseas

and offer threats and violence by mobs

in what seems less and less Land of the Free

the nativists' appeal's always the same

to fall for it once more is our deep shame

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion/the-trump-effect-and-how-it-spreads.html