The ascendancy of the vulgar candidate

The ascendancy of the vulgar candidate
The ascendancy of the vulgar candidate

It’s one thing to have the fancypants people say that Donald Trump has vulgar taste: goldplated chairs that one commentator said “look like they belong at one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces”; a fondness for marble-and-gold home furnishings; a glitzy chandelier in the bathroom; garish excesses in Trump Tower and the Trump Princess yacht. That’s snobbery masked as sophistication.

It’s quite another thin…