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28. Cited in James P. Pfiffner, The Character Factor: How we Judge America’s Presidents (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2004), 3.
29. James David Barber, The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972).
30. For an excellent critique of Barber’s work see Alexander L. George, “Review of The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House,” World Politics 26, no. 2 (January 1974): 234–282. George writes, “In my judgment … Barber’s theory is insufficiently developed and insufficiently validated to carry the burden of prediction,” 280.
31. Deroy Murdock, “Hillary’s Temperament: Wrong for President,” National Review, September 30, 2016, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440586/hillary-clinton-temperament-president-not-job-her.
32. “Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President,” New York Times, September 26, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/opinion/why-donald-trump-should-not-be-president.html?mcubz=2.
33. David A. Farherenthold, “Trump Recorded Having Extremely Lewd Conversation about Women in 2005,” The Washington Post, October 8, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?utm_term=.ee69c1ad63f8.
34. “Trump is Pushing U.S. Politics,” The Toronto Star.
35. Thomas Piketty, Economics of Inequality (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).
36. Nicolas Fitz, “Economic Inequality: It’s Far Worse Than You Think,” Scientific American, March 31, 2015, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/economic-inequality-it-s-far-worse-than-you-think/.
37. Larry M. Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 1 and 3.
38. Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups and Average Citizens,” Perspectives on Politics 12, no. 3 (2014): 577.
39. Bartels, Unequal Democracy, 275.
40. Markus Feldenkirchen, “America’s Oligarch Problem: How the Super-Rich Threaten US Democracy,” Spiegel Online, September 10, 2015, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/donald-trump-and-other-super-rich-define-us-presidential-race-a-1052151.html.
41. “The Guardian View on the US Election: The Time is Right for a Female President,” The Guardian, October 21, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/21/guardian-view-on-us-presidency-time-is-right-for-female-leader-hillary-clinton.
42. Serge Halimi, “La Primaire Des Milliardaires,” Le Mode Diplomatique, September 2015, https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/09/HALIMI/53678.
43. Timothy Garton Ash, “El Dinero y las Campanas Electorales,” El País, October 8, 2015, https://elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/06/opinion/1444128942_629595.html.
44. Michel Onfray, “Benvenuti Nell’epoca del Cinismo Planetario,” L’Espresso, April 19, 2017, http://espresso.repubblica.it/plus/articoli/2017/04/14/news/tutti-cattivi-l-epoca-del-cinismo-planetario-1.299636.
45. Anu Narayanswamy, “Meet the Wealthy Donors who are Pouring Millions into the 2016 Election, The Washington Post, November 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/superpac-donors-2016/.
46. Marian Currinder, “Campaign Finance. Where Big Money Mattered and Where It Didn’t,” The Elections of 2016, 159.
47. Walter Dean
