Dark Victory

Published July 26, 2016 12:05pm ET



Philadelphia

He shouted from the dais in a thick New York brogue, painting a dystopian picture of America. An America suffering a “40-year decline” of its middle class. An America whose “younger generation will have a lower standard of living than their parents.” An altogether Cormac McCarthy-esque America, where people are “scared to death” and “struggling to survive.” And when he wasn’t busy running the state of the country down, the septuagenarian also took time to blast “the media.”

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