This was a close election. If people keep up dismissing real economic despair, next one won't be. I'm from Turkey. I've seen this movie. https://twitter.com/MWLaPointe/status/796419859559182336 …
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Erdogan won the second 2015 election after "losing" the first one because he started a civil war. Trump will try the same.
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watch him clamp down on BLM/Muslims ... war is empirically VERY good for leaders.
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This isn't a call to ignore the obvious and resurgent racism. It's to understand that the committed green frogs are a small minority.
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Stop normalizing the worst of the racists by sneering at very real economic concerns, using totalizing language that lumps it all together.
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: I don't want us to dismiss economic despair. It is across racial lines, but this is not why Trump won. Whitelash happened.
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I don't disagree with you; I don't think it's either/or. He managed to create a thin-margin coalition.
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: I saw economic despair up close in a Philly neighborhood I did
#GotVote. It was horrible. Black people haven't recovered.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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seems similar to anti-US populism of Chavez. Left and right do not seem like useful categories here.
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as an aside
@RadicalParty is pressing for EU to reopen the negotiation for admitting Turkey. http://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/491385/conferenza-stampa-unagenda-per-lo-stato-di-diritto-e-la-democrazia-in-turchia … -
sorry iit's in Italian. Especially abt chaps 23-24 of the treaty, they're abt Turkish judiciary and vetoed right now
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