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shanny

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3. All this hand-wringing over progressive candidates

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed May 16, 2018, 09:19 AM

May 2018

defeating more "traditional" Democrats overlooks the fact that in 2016 tRump ran as a populist and won in working class districts. We all knew he was lying about what he could or would do, but not everybody did, and clearly his message resonated with more than racist deplorables (i.e. the Obama to tRump switchers).

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All this hand-wringing over progressive candidates shanny May 2018 #3

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I know that they are worried--who would not be? shanny May 2018 #10

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