From the New Republic: Pro Wrestling Can Teach You Everything You Need to Know About the GOP Debate

An interesting take on the relationship between Donald Trump and the rest of the Republican candidates.

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Donald Trump is a heel. Not in the generic insult sense, but in the very specific World Wrestling Entertainment sense. In pro wrestling, which shares certain cultural sensibilities with the Republican Party, the heel is the bad guy—a rude, nasty cheater—who the good guy fights. The good guy is called the face. That was the Republican Party’s problem on the debate stage: It has a heel but no face.