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Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About ‘Trump Country’
NY Times ^ | 7/20/18 | Smarsch

Posted on 07/20/2018 10:54:57 AM PDT by pabianice

For one thing, it’s not Trump country. Most struggling whites I know here live a life of quiet desperation, mad at their white bosses, not resentful toward their co-workers or neighbors of color...

Like many Midwestern workers I know, my dad has more in common ideologically with New York’s Democratic Socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez than with the white Republicans who run our state. Having spent most of his life doing dangerous, underpaid work without health insurance, he supports the ideas of single-payer health care and a universal basic income...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: arthurus
Roger the leech.

Thank you for the correction.

41 posted on 07/20/2018 3:23:21 PM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: arthurus
Have another drink.

You're doing fine.

42 posted on 07/20/2018 4:18:49 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Hojczyk

I think you’re right, but she’s making a superhuman effort to camouflage that argument so that she won’t be tarred & feathered by her SJW classmates.


43 posted on 07/20/2018 6:23:45 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: pabianice

Isn’t the NYT a corporation?


44 posted on 07/20/2018 10:18:09 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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