I agree with Elizabeth Preza, a staff writer for AlterNet, the website that focuses on politics, media, and cultural criticism, when she says, “Donald Trump is a bully without exception.” What’s disturbing about this fact screams from the very lead-in (also called lede) of her excellent June 2, 2016, article, “Trump’s Childish Name-Calling Is a Time-Honored Strategy of Bullying”: “Trump’s insults may seem immature, but there’s a longstanding tradition of elevating bullies to power.” Of course she couldn’t be sure at that point that he would become the Republican candidate for president,

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