Why Scaramucci’s about-face should scare Trump

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Anthony Scaramucci is much like my parents’ friends from Orange County.

They’re only a generation or two removed from immigrants and nevertheless wildly successful. Although they’re proud of their BMWs and Ivy-bound progeny, they remember the vestiges of the working class. They had no patience for the Obama administration’s relentless attacks on job creators and capitalism, but they consider themselves pro-immigrant, pro-marriage equality, and ambivalently libertarian on most other social issues. And they desperately wanted a woman president, but definitely not “Crooked Hillary.”

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