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Perot left behind before he dropped out. but then he learned the lesson from that. lessons you can't actually beat the system from outside. so he beat it from inside. what donald trump did was rather than trying to create a third party is he kind of took over one of the existing parties, in this case the republicans, and he used that to kind of, you know, overturn the existing order in washington. so yeah, there is a lot of similarities. you point out the protectionism issue, the idea of jobs being sucked to mexico as being one of the most prominent ones. the idea of reform. the idea that wash...

Very, you know, distinctive. he didn't practice the politics of division in quite the same way that president trump does. he wasn't a foe of immigration in quite the same way. that president trump is. but to the extent he represented something different, the idea that we were unhappy with the way the system worked, he in fact does sort of represent the beginning of a wave that crested about 20-some years later. and he did it from outside of the system. he tried to do it as an independent. he got 19% of the vote, as you pointed out, but we learned the limits of being independent in a two-party ...

He wasn't a foe of immigration in quite the same way. that president trump is. but to the extent he represented something different, the idea that we were unhappy with the way the system worked, he in fact does sort of represent the beginning of a wave that crested about 20-some years later. and he did it from outside of the system. he tried to do it as an independent. he got 19% of the vote, as you pointed out, but we learned the limits of being independent in a two-party country. donald trump learned from that. he ran for president first in 2000 on a reform party ticket. that was the party t...