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This article indeed seems like theatre, not quite coherent, like <b class="">bad</b> poetry, or drama. Conflated with truths not always correlated to the reasons why Trump triumphed. So many gross assertions about why people rejected Hillary were more reflections
of his own biases/ideas than with any verifiable analytical reasons why the poor whites (and others) turned to Trump and/or spurned Hillary.
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<div class="">I don’t think its worth while parsing the whole piece. Its elements of truth (for me) are corrupted by incoherence, irrelevance, and exaggeration. </div>
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<div class="">—mkb</div>
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<div class="">On Nov 20, 2016, at 12:19 PM, C. G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com" class="">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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It's perhaps not an accident that it comes from a playwright. The poets often get there first (even if they sometimes don't know where they've got to).<br class="">
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<div class="">The election enacted the surprising split between neoliberals and neoconservatives. (And Trump was the Agent of History because he is neither.)</div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.counterpunch.org_2016_11_10_the-2Dbig-2Dsplit_&d=DQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=RbDT1tYJGukRYhPt5oNtCeRe3p2Bp2sx7Qk4TWFvItM&m=gfsvkWAeedfTXsZUKLtAyCuRmdEWzVyqAqOrXMatBNM&s=2JnpZmBi-e7355m4iphDNigximQEYD0DHTvdKZH2gvI&e=" class="">http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/10/the-big-split/</a></div>
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<div class="">—CGE</div>
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