Shribman: Ascendancy of vulgar candidate
It’s one thing to have the fancy-pants people say that Donald Trump has vulgar taste: gold-plated chairs that one commentator said “look like they belong at one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces”; a fondness for marble-and-gold home furnishings; a glitzy chandelier in the bathroom; garish excesses in Trump Tower and the Trump Princess yacht. That’s snobbery masked as sophistication.