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Dan Davies

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it is strange that lots of people who presumably voted for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would now, seemingly, repudiate their utterly mainstream analysis of the basis of right-wing populism in America as idiotic and probably racist.

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Dan Davies's avatar Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social
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the "basket of deplorables" speech and "they get bitter and cling to their guns and religion" - these are both seen as too charitable today, the mainstream progressive position seemingly being "why don't these people get on with dying of despair"

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