'Ohiosplain.' Verb. When a DC/NY-based journalist tries to convince you that their childhood gives them magic insight into the 2016 election
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an 'elite' journalist purporting to explain the midwest is talking to his current cohort, not the one he fled, which is why it's useless
I mean, sure, it has a point, and that point is soothing the egos of city-based journalists about how they misunderstood the 'other'.
