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Why the comparisons between the president and the pope? because they are both populist figures elected within tradition-bound institutions who are impatient with norms and rules and sort of, you know, the way things have always been done that seems to get in the way of their agenda. and i m not you know, when i make that provocative trump/francis comparison, if you take them as political actors, obviously trump is very much a conservative or right wing populist and the pope liens to the left. but in the context of washington, d.c. and rome, they are both seniority of similar embodiments of popular discontent with western institutions. they both entered in certain ways into institutions that seem to be in crisis. and they both have a kind of vision of, you know, making america great again, making ....

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