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sandensea

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4. Sounds like the rest of the world got the Powell Memo

Reply to FiveGoodMen (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:14 PM

Feb 2019

The use of wedge issues and identity politics to radicalize enough voters to the point no reforms - no matter how modest or needed - are possible.

Although, and as Argentina's Macri can tell you, any president that uses that opportunity to take trickle-down policies too far, does so at the risk of disaster.

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