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Skinner

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16. There is some context missing in both quotes.
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 12:35 PM
Dec 2016

They actually come one right after the other in the text, and you can see the point he was making if you read the entire section. (My emphasis added.)

I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump, because they wanted a Trump presidency. I have an enormous problem with anyone who voted for Trump or Stein or Johnson—or who didn’t vote at all—and who now expresses horror about the outcome of this election.

His point is this: If you voted for Trump because you wanted a Trump presidency and all he stands for, then you voted in a manner that is consistent with your values. But if you voted for Trump and you are now expressing shock at what he stands for, then you did not vote in a manner that is consistent with your values. You failed.

And BTW, am I going to have to explain every out-of-context sentence in this article on an isolated basis, or can we just read the entire thing in context and get the point that Eichenwald is making?

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