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10 Reasons to Doubt the Racial Explanation for Trump’s Success 0
- Culture
- November 10, 2016
“White Supremacist America!” yells Counterpunch. “White Supremacists Bolstering Trump,” says AlterNet. This really is a “White Riot,” says Vox. That’s the opinion of the left for why Trump not only won the Republican nomination, but also seems poised to win the presidency. For years, the left has imagined the dominant swath of bourgeois culture to
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CEO Tells Employees Who Support Trump’s Antics to Take a Hike 0
- Culture
- November 10, 2016
Via Fox News: If you voted for Donald Trump, you may not feel welcomed at Grubhub. The CEO of Grubhub, an online food delivery service, sent a company wide email Wednesday suggesting employees who agree with President-elect Donald Trump’s behaviors and his campaign rhetoric should resign. “If you do not agree with this statement then
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Election Pundits: Clueless, Spectacularly Clueless 0
- Politics
- November 9, 2016
Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States, in a victory which gobsmacked the media and pundits. Trump overcame sex scandals, bad debates, a shambolic organisation, hostility from the grandees of his own party and a relentlessly hostile media. It was a smashing success. Instead of dragging the Republicans into infighting, irrelevance and
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5 Things That Explain Trump’s Shocking Victory 0
- Politics
- November 9, 2016
A populist wave that began with Brexit in June reached the United States in stunning fashion on Tuesday night. In one of the biggest upsets in American political history, Donald Trump won a truly historic victory in the U.S. presidential election. Trump’s remarkably decisive win stunned most political pundits, myself included. Throughout the campaign, Trump
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Would Sanders Have Beaten Trump?0
- Politics
- November 9, 2016
One of the questions beings asked this morning by many Democrats, and also a fair share of Republicans: Would Bernie Sanders have defeated Donald Trump in the presidential election if he had been the Democratic candidate? Way back in February of this past year, the title of an article by Harvard University Ph.D. student Nathan
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Trump Won More Black and Latino Voters than Romney. Why?0
- Politics
- November 9, 2016
In the months leading up to the election, we could all sense that racial tensions were on the rise. And in the minds of many, Donald Trump wasn’t helping those tensions any with his comments about building a wall and sending illegal immigrants back to their country of origin. So in the wake of Donald
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