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The parallels to the Rob Ford story are pretty weird

2010: once-joke running on populist grievance beats experienced baggage-laden center-lefter

2014: Veteran left-winger gets lead, is overtaken by more conservative guy with history of losing who’s running on a return to normal
I don’t wanna just compare things to Toronto because I covered Toronto, but, like, that’s a weird number of similarities
Sanders is not the Rob Ford. Trump is the Rob Ford. Sanders is the Olivia Chow.
The candidate running on the return to normalcy, John Tory, defeated the left-winger Olivia Chow and Ford’s brother Doug after Doug took Rob’s place on the ballot when Rob was diagnosed with cancer. (Four years later, Doug was elected premier of Ontario.)
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