He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued... Let no one be mistaken: Donald Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded. ... Donald Trump is the modern-day incarnation of the Know Nothing movement.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued... Let no one be mistaken: Donald Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded. ... Donald Trump is the modern-day incarnation of the Know Nothing movement." in the context of "Rick Perry, campaign event, Willard Hotel, Date: 2015-07-22, quoted in DelReal, Jose A. (2015-07-22), "Perry: Trump's campaign ‘a barking carnival act' and ‘a cancer on conservatism'", The Washington Post" to mean that wisdom is timeless.