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                                               November 11, 2016

  There's one way you can salvage the
  theory that Trump is Obama's fault:              Though actually: what
                                                   about just in the "rust
  You can say that Obama did a mediocre job        belt"?  Obama was
  of repairing the damage Bush Jr did to           pro-TPP and Hillary
  the nation, and because of that the              waffled on it: could it
  economically disgruntled were ripe for           be that's how they lost
  Change and went Trump.                           Michigan, Pennsylvania
                                                   and Wisconsin?  I'd
  But exit polls show Trumpsters were higher       believe it, but I'd want
  on the economic scale, and they also show        to see some opinion
  Trump voters were very white.                    polls on that.

      So: it looks more like                       (Though of course, that
      racism than economics.                       presumes we can believe
                                                   those opinion polls...)

                                                   I'm long past the delusion
                                                   that I can intuit what
                                                   my fellow American's
                                                   think about anything:
                                                   they continually surprise
                                                   me.




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