Douthat: "voters supporting [Trump] despite his demagoguery." Shouldn't "despite" be "because of"?http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/sunday/confessions-of-a-columnist.html?_r=0 …
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@HeerJeet@davidfrum covered that pretty well in his recent piece.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Despite? Despite?!?!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Trump is a con artist who succeeds by telling people what they want to hear. What the GOP wants to hear is George Wallace style racism.
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So, not to be too priestly, next step in Douthat's penitence is to think about GOP base & history of appeals to racism since 1964 pivot.
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@HeerJeet Can any analysis from the right acknowledge that, though? It would mean admitting the party is out of control. -
@HeerJeet Which it has been for years, of course, but until Trump the wild right could always be dismissed as Tea Party extremism. - Show replies
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