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Way back in February 2016, with Donald Trump in the early stages of his hostile takeover of the Republican Party, Robert Kagan, the sharpest of the neoconservative intellectuals, took to the pages of The Washington Post to denounce the mogul from Manhattan as "the most successful demagogue-charlatan in the history of U.S. politics."

Thanks to the reporting of The New York Times, which builds on an earlier story the paper published before the 2016 election, we now know that Kagan was right, at least about the "charlatan" part.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.