Rhetoric and Division of Left and Right in the Trump Era
THE ELECTION OF DONALD J. TRUMP to the office of president opens a number of opportunities for the Left. However, the outcome of the election resists satisfactory explanation, so recognizing and seizing these opportunities will be difficult. Diverse news sources pose numerous different rationales for choosing Trump over Hillary Clinton: dissatisfaction with urban elite liberalism,[^1] with Clinton,1 with current economic conditions, and with shifts in the racial makeup of the country.
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