de-investment, gentrification, union-busting, and corporate greed. If you go through each state's exit polls in 2016 (WI, MI, PA, OH), trade and immigration were the top issues for Trump voters. As I always said, Trump had them at repealing NAFTA. This derangement about Russia
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as if Putin was standing behind mid-west voters with a crowbar in the voting booth...is cable news-created narrative to try and rationalize or surmise a reason someone like Trump can win. Of course, this doesn't mean Russia didn't try to interfere-they did....
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just like the U.S. has directly interfered in elections around the world for decades (including in Russia in 1996). If Dems want to pretend if not for Russia,
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notion that Russia got Trump elected is predominately held by Dems living on the east or west coast—which are the predominate folks who live in a bubble not directly seeing and feeling the economic despair everywhere else (I live in NYC and most people I talk to acknowledge this)
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THERE IS NO EMPIRICAL DATA that shows Russia or
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sexy and sensational as the Cold War reenactment played daily on cable news. Reality is never as entertaining I guess. But the continued Russia-phobia and pretending that it's Russia—not neoliberalism & bad candidates--that is the reason for Trump will result in....more Trump.
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please enlighten me
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Both can be true... Russia couldn’t have helped this maniac but for those conditions you correctly point out...
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how did they help him win exactly if exit polls biggest issues in OH, MI, WI, PA were trade and immigration? Did fake FB pages cause less black, Latino, and age 18-29 come out for Clinton as compared to Obama in 2012? C'mon Chris--take off your pundit hat and keep it real!
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