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Presidential historian who teaches history at nyu. tim, let me start with you. the most obvious analogy that people bring up is barry goldwater running an outsider campaign and in a sense the campaign that rejected much of the republican party. is that what the great historical analogy is? >> we had a number of instances in american history where one would describe as a protest candidacy or an insurgency has taken over a political party. 1896, william jennings bryan. 1964, barry goldwater. 1972, george mcgovern. and 1980, ronald reagan. in all of those cases, the leader of the insurgency has s...

>> we had a number of instances in american history where one would describe as a protest candidacy or an insurgency has taken over a political party. 1896, william jennings bryan. 1964, barry goldwater. 1972, george mcgovern. and 1980, ronald reagan. in all of those cases, the leader of the insurgentacy has some washington experience or some governmental experience. ronald reagan hadn't been to washington, but he had run the biggest state in the country. this is thefirst time you have a protest movement whose beneficiary is a man without any governing or public administration experience at al...