Many critics of Donald Trump's presidential run have likened it to that of his predecessor, America's historic first Fraud in Chief, Barack Obama.  The comparison is apt on various levels.  One of the defining peculiarities of Trump's success so far – and I am not one of those who insist he could never win the general election – is that a populist movement inconceivable except as a reaction to the fallout of Obama's fundamental transformation of America actually echoes Obama's own strategy and substance in so many ways.  Trump's followers, who in their patriotism ought to hate this fact, have instead chosen to aggressively conceal and deny it. Let us take a moment, then, to consider some essential points of comparison between the political ascents of two hollow men who might well be meeting one another's masks in the Oval Office on January 20, 2017.  First, the rap sheet on President Obama: Though he is a doctrinaire...(Read Full Article)