Patrick Caddell?
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Caddell, who lives in Charleston, is perhaps best known for helping Jimmy Carter win the 1976 Presidential race. He is also remembered for having collaborated with his friend Warren Beatty on the 1998 satire “Bulworth.” In that film, a kamikaze candidate abandons the usual talking points and excoriates both the major political parties and the media; voters love his unconventionality, and he becomes improbably popular. If the plot sounds familiar, there’s a reason: in recent years, Caddell has offered political advice to Trump. He has not worked directly for the President, but at least as far back as 2013 he has been a contractor for one of Trump’s biggest financial backers: Robert Mercer, a reclusive Long Island hedge-fund manager, who has become a major force behind the Trump Presidency.
During the past decade, Mercer, who is seventy, has funded an array of political projects that helped pave the way for Trump’s rise. Among these efforts was public-opinion research, conducted by Caddell, showing that political conditions in America were increasingly ripe for an outsider candidate to take the White House. Caddell told me that Mercer “is a libertarian—he despises the Republican establishment,” and added, “He thinks that the leaders are corrupt crooks, and that they’ve ruined the country.”
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caddell first met Trump in the eighties. (“People said he was just a clown,” Caddell said. “But I’ve learned that you should always pay attention to successful ‘clowns.’ ”) Caddell shared the research he did for Mercer with Trump and others in the campaign, including Bannon, with whom he has partnered on numerous projects.
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency
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. . .as one of a handful of former Washington officials that the next Democratic POTUS should NOT ever hire. . .
30 years later hasn't changed that assessment.
The Powers That Shouldn't Be
http://www.unz.org/Pub/WashingtonMonthly-1987oct-00039
Hell, he was quoted 3 years ago as saying that then-POTUS Obama was a "raging narcissist who has no grip on reality"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/11/10/pat_caddell_obama_a_raging_narcissist_who_has_no_grip_on_reality.html
He is obviously someone who went over to the dark side a lifetime ago.
"Clearly, Bernie Sanders is an elitist and his followers are elites."
Not humor, not irony, not sarcasm, just serious analysis.
