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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts) Wed Dec 28, 2016, 02:54 PM Dec 2016

Sorry New York Times, But Racism DID Get Trump Elected

The New York Times recently ran an op-ed claiming that bigotry and racism weren’t the driving factors behind Trump’s electoral victory. But this argument completely ignores the psychological tricks that Trump used to stir the pot and get people to the polls. The Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Sorry New York Times, But Racism DID Get Trump Elected (Original Post) GoLeft TV Dec 2016 OP

An op-ed is not the opinion of the NYT, it is the opinion of the author of the op-ed DonViejo Dec 2016 #1

DonViejo

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1. An op-ed is not the opinion of the NYT, it is the opinion of the author of the op-ed

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Wed Dec 28, 2016, 03:03 PM

Dec 2016

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