Chatsworth Osborn, Jr. of 'Dobie Gillis'
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For all his riches, Trump is still an Outer Boroughs guy at heart. Like me!
The Outer Boroughs—Brooklyn, Queens (where Trump and I were born), Staten Island, The Bronx—are New York City’s version of “flyover country.” The Manhattan mentality identifies with effete (in my opinion) elites, But, as New York Post op-ed editor Mark Cunningham pointed out in a brilliant piece, Trump’s style is “busting balls…He’s playing and winning by blue-collar rules…” [Donald Trump has invented a new way to win by Mark Cunningham, New York Post, February 15, 2016.]
Remember how in their Republican Convention speeches, Donald Trump’s kids recalled how “the blue-collar billionaire”stood side-by-side with men in the building trades who were pouring cement and listened to them respectfully?
They weren’t joking. ...
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