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Old 08-01-2016, 10:29 AM   #9203
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Lets disabuse ourselves of the motivations of Trump voters. The regressive left stuff is a sideshow of a deeper politics of the left that has little or nothing to do with the motivations of Trump voters. Those voters are reacting to much more base changes in race and identity politics. Stuff that we thought we moved on from in the 90s. But we haven't.
Street Pharmacist correctly identified at least some of the motivation behind Trump supporters - they're losers in declining communities who bitterly resent being ridiculed for their lack of sophistication, while being called privileged because they share the racial and gender makeup of the men who run wall street.
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