What if Al Capone had run for president in the 1940s? Could he have won?
How about stable genius John Gotti? Could he have been the leader of the free world, had he run in, say, the 1990s?
Maybe Gotti, but not Capone. Simply because “The Jerry Springer Show” didn’t launch until 1991, when the deplorable movement was just in its infancy.
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