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Ross Perot was the populist who betrayed populism

10 July 2019

4:54 AM

10 July 2019

4:54 AM

Ross Perot, who has just died at age 89, is wrongly remembered as the man who cost George H.W. Bush his re-election in 1992. He should be remembered as the man who cost his own populist ideas their chance to remake American politics 20 years before the election of Donald Trump.

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