10 months ago, I think the Senator and I called this possibility based on the Reagan democrat votes in the Rust Belt. All those union voters have swung Red, and there is still enough of them to make a difference. I don't think this is so much racism as it is the "losers" of globalization rebelling against the "Elite", just like they did in Britain, just like they are going to do in France. Racism is the same as it ever was (or was not). What's different is this new dynamic sweeping through the Western democracies...
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