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2016 Postmortem

Peacetrain

(22,877 posts) Thu Aug 4, 2016, 11:49 AM Aug 2016

I wonder if the right has ever figured out the people they are mad at

are themselves.. the ratings for the republican congress are in the toilet..

They are raving mad at themselves..

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I wonder if the right has ever figured out the people they are mad at (Original Post) Peacetrain Aug 2016 OP

Trump's base is angry, in my view, because it is no longer 1950. guillaumeb Aug 2016 #1

guillaumeb

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1. Trump's base is angry, in my view, because it is no longer 1950.

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Thu Aug 4, 2016, 11:54 AM

Aug 2016

A time when, because of high marginal tax rates and high unionization, the US working class was doing better than it ever did. And better than it has done since the Reagan Revolution started.

Trump's base blames non-whites and immigrants for a problem caused by the 1% of (mainly) white people who run things.

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