[billorites]

You grossly misread what the author wrote. Please read it again and slowly.

I draw your attention to the relevant sentence, "where a man once considered nothing more than a tacky, loud, nouveau-riche liberal..."

Sefton is not denigrating Trump, but is accurately describing the contempt in which he was held, and still is, by his opponents.

[stanne]

No one this guy is talking about considered him nouveau riche