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fleabiscuit

(4,542 posts) Wed Feb 26, 2020, 11:21 PM Feb 2020

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It was suggested my post more apply belongs here... "What Trump got right about white America"

I didn't want to start a brush fire, but wth...

"What Trump got right about white America"

AEI’s Tim Carney discusses how social breakdown killed the American dream on The Ezra Klein Show.
By Jane Coastonjane.coaston@vox.com Feb 24, 2020, 9:20am EST

"...That later became the thesis of my (Tim Carney) book: The American dream seems dead to him because where he lives now, outside of Charlotte, is a place that doesn’t have strong community. The same sort of thing that draws people to Bernie Sanders — people wanting to be involved and connected and organized. I think a lot of voters just wanted somebody just to say “the American dream is dead, and those guys who in Washington are ripping you off....”

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/2/24/21147042/tim-carney-donald-trump-white-america-the-ezra-klein-show?fbclid=IwAR3uA0O7w07ZMHNtCdj0Gp-GttF4MAAwkm7JeX5udwqcPf0k69qmFjtEP9

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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It was suggested my post more apply belongs here... "What Trump got right about white America" (Original Post) fleabiscuit Feb 2020 OP

And what comfort it must be to vote for someone saying Washington is a rip off Moderateguy Feb 2020 #1

That's more like normal thinking. We're not dealing with that. nt fleabiscuit Feb 2020 #2

Moderateguy

(945 posts)

1. And what comfort it must be to vote for someone saying Washington is a rip off

Reply to fleabiscuit (Original post)

Wed Feb 26, 2020, 11:26 PM

Feb 2020

And then 3 years into his Presidency realize that he has DONE NOTHING FOR YOU

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

fleabiscuit

(4,542 posts)

2. That's more like normal thinking. We're not dealing with that. nt

Reply to Moderateguy (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 26, 2020, 11:31 PM

Feb 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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