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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 7 Nov 2016

    Donald Trump’s success reveals a frightening weakness in American democracy http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/7/13532178/donald-trump-american-democracy-weakness?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter … via @voxdotcom

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      2. BigMan_OnCampus‏ @BigMan_OnCampus 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @voxdotcom

        No, it reveals a total failure of all aspects of government, including the media. Hard to believe you can't see this.

        2 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
      3. BigMan_OnCampus‏ @BigMan_OnCampus 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @BigMan_OnCampus @sapinker @voxdotcom

        Here Steve, watch a gay billionaire dot-comer explain how trump voters are not crazy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfYLEPRiIyE …

        0 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
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      1. Brian Donohue‏ @ennuigogo 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @voxdotcom

        I've been a huge fan of yours for 20 years. Please snap out of such maudlin antics. Way beneath you.

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      1. AriEs  ♈️ ♓️‏ @EriuCaillech 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @voxdotcom

        but HRC's doesn't? You guys r blinded by your own intellect.

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      1. CloakingDonkey‏ @CloakingDonkey 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @voxdotcom

        thank the gods there was a criminal, corrupt warmonger around to save us from that evil man who said a thing once...

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      1. Scott Robbins‏ @Bajecco 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @SamHarrisOrg @voxdotcom that weakness was exposed almost 20 years before this idiot Trump

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      1. Rocket‏ @rocket_attack 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @voxdotcom

        So you're retweeting Vox now huh? Vox...

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      1. jim parkey‏ @jimparkey 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @voxdotcom

        do we not see any weakness in 2-party system that has run up $19T in debt and beholden to spec interests?

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      2. Jeff Rogers‏ @J3FFR0G3RS 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @vkhosla @voxdotcom Idea worthy of serious consideration. Headline ridiculous. Democracies, like markets, will correct.

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      3. Tom Cobley-Hobbes‏ @HobbesianM 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @J3FFR0G3RS @sapinker and

        Democracies are not markets.They never correct. Are always captured by oligarchies or demagogues.

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      1. Jim Austin‏ @JimAustin45 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @voxdotcom

        People's belief in America's right of self-defense is not a weakness. It's liberals' denial thereof that's the weakness

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      1. illuminati oppressor‏ @Kenjohn50n 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @SamHarrisOrg @voxdotcom so, liberals are anti-democracy now.

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      1. The Sportsman‏ @Nezzy_Lives 7 Nov 2016
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        @vkhosla @voxdotcom Weakness?? You are kidding right? Beyond parody.

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      1. Tom Cobley-Hobbes‏ @HobbesianM 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @voxdotcom

        Your article says a reactionary strongman is bad, but what about a progressive strongman, such as Roosevelt?

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      1. Jukka Aakula‏ @jaakula 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @voxdotcom

        If Trump wins we see a Putin-Trump honeymoon of the kind as the Molotov-Ribbentrop one between Stalin and Hitler.

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      1. Trigga‏ @Catsplaining 7 Nov 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg

        whats worse, being so blinded by ur own ivory tower bigotry & delusion? Or being part of the disgusting lie machine?

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