Tim Carney has a funny tweet about the election:
“Low-income rural white voters in Pa. voted for Obama in 2008 and then Trump in 2016, and your explanation is white supremacy? Interesting.”
Found that jewel in an election post-mortem by Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept. It compares the lessons of the Trump election and the Brexit vote. Like most stuff by Greenwald, it is worth reading. HERE.
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