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...strip which can draw comments from notables ranging from President Bush to Donald Trump must be a major part of American political and social commentary. While this means that Trudeau has garnered the respect (or if not respect, at least interest) of many, it also means that he has a responsibility to be fair...
...complimentary, or even unbiased. What it does mean, however, is true to the facts. Trudeau often targets people's foibles in his strip, and that's part of what makes Doonesbury so interesting. But the fact remains that such attacks are generally based on the truth or conventional opinion: Trump is obscene when it comes to conspicuous consumption; Bush has used his absurd "points of light" program as a way of avoiding direct governmental confrontation with domestic problems...
...pull at the tales of Harvard's gowns. The faculty and students at Harvard do not seem like those in the outside world. And the institution does not act like other institutions. From the outside, it appears, Harvard has more money than God and the students more confidence than Trump...
...There are countless examples. The sense of arrogance can be Donald Trump saying his bankers were tossing money at him or John Gutfreund's Salomon Brothers cornering the treasury-bill market illegally and failing to report it. It can be Leona ("Only the little people pay taxes") Helmsley and her bragging to a little person who is going to be her undoing. The sense of aloneness is born of a mistrust of underlings, which can approach Howard Hughes' isolationism. The adventure-seeking behavior can be insider trader Dennis Levine plotting to dupe SEC regulators with offshore bank accounts. Pete Rose...
...What's Trump's problem...