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To defeat Trump, it is going to take progressive, mass-movement politics that expands the electorate and fights for working-class & marginalized people. Turning back the clock may sound appealing to some, but we must recognize how we got here in the first place.
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I understand disaffected voters because I once was one. As a waitress, I’d watch pundits on TV talk about how we didn’t need to improve the ACA much when almost no one I knew could afford insurance. Or they’d talk about how great the economy was when everyone I knew struggled./2
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And while folks on TV went on about how we don’t need substantive change in America because things “aren’t that bad,” I couldn’t help but feel lied to. Mountains of student debt. Friends working multiple jobs just to afford rent. Not one person I worked with had insurance. /3
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