Obama’s Cheesecake Factory zinger misses the point again

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Welcome to Monday’s edition of Washington Secrets. There’s a new elitist test sweeping the nation, and it goes like this: When was the last time you were in a Cheesecake Factory? For Secrets, it was last month, as it happens. Plus, there’s no such thing as bad publicity when you are launching a book. And will a Trump endorsement get Netanyahu over the line in Israel?

Barack Obama was right about Cheesecake Factory, its decor, and Donald Trump. Yet he still clearly missed the point, just as Democrats have done ever since the New York property developer rode the golden escalator into American politics.

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