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<div class="">This is the most plausible commentary on the 2016 national election I have seen.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><a href="http://nytimes.com" class="">NYTimes.com</a>:
The Peculiar Populism of Donald Trump</b><br class="">
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">February
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All wars have unintended consequences, including culture wars.</div>
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<div class="">Note the relative absence of the usual bluffing, faking & pontificating about “the real issue,” or what made any group of voters</div>
<div class="">vote the way they did. Here, it was more cultural (“values”) than economic, but they were of course intertwined.</div>
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<div class="">We saw another example of how the “little people,” looking for a national savior or political messiah, will turn to an authoritarian "strong man” </div>
<div class="">or caudillo instead of socialism. I think an unspeakable issue underneath all the complaints about “political correctness” was resentment of all the fierce talk</div>
<div class="">about “white privilege,” while all they could perceive was “black privilege”: affirmative action, welfare entitlements, special exemptions, etc. </div>
<div class=""> ~~ Ron</div>
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