Your periodic reminder that for the last forty years there’s been no bigger booster of the cult of urban renewal through real estate than the NYT – so when writers like Frank Bruni moan that “Trump is the logical extension of the worst of America,” they’re behaving like one of the paper’s favorite tropes: “entitled millennials.” There’s a stronger case to be made that Trump is the logical extension of the worst of New York City: a predatory real-estate developer fattened on a diet of ‘public-private partnerships’ and opaque tax hacks, dressed in empty corporate glitz, manufactured celebrity, and NYC-size self-regard.