"A Culture in Which Predation and Acquisition Is the Norm"

"With all this, there's something specifically New York to it. Trump is an outlier. In most respects, he's considered a clown and always was considered a clown by the New York City money and political elite. But he's of it to a great degree, the voracious appetite and instinctive predation. There's a common New York root to all of it. But it’s also somehow a story about early 21st century plutocracy, media barons like Murdoch, foreign kleptocrats like the ones who seem to have bought into Trump and channeled his rise to power toward their goals. It's all of a piece."

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo writes that "[t]here's something about New York, New York City, that is, that is at the root of the Trump phenomenon."