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George Will: Brown’s muscular progressivism would challenge Trump in 2020

“The money man dealing himself a hot royal flush. Then giving you and me a phony hand like a pair of tens or something.”

Washington • With his gravelly voice and his lack of senatorial sheen — even in a well-pressed suit he somehow radiates rumpledness — Sherrod Brown could have wandered into the Senate from Depression-era proletarian literature. The Ohio Democrat’s populist persona is undiminished by his Yale degree. But, then, Norman Thomas, the Socialist Party’s presidential candidate six times, was Princeton Class of 1905. During the workers' uprising, martinis will be served at 6 p.