Steve Barnes
This column has been updated to extract Rep. Stephen Meeks of Conway from two sentences.
Nate Bell refers to him as “the little demagogue down in Florida.” Way down in Florida, in Palm Beach, at the resort called Mar-a-Lago. He owns the place, Donald Trump, and lives there, smoldering. And if he does not own outright the Republican Party, he is plainly in control of it. Defeated after a single term in the White House, but still enthroned. Remarkable. Remarkable, and to Bell – who left the GOP and declared himself an Independent while still in the Arkansas House of Representatives –frightening.