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Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump’s appeal — and they failed. The Democrats are a party of college graduates, as the whole world understands by now, of Ph.D.s and genius-grant winners and the best consultants money can buy. Mr. Trump is a con man straight out of Mark Twain; he will say anything, promise anything, do nothing. But his movement baffled the party of education and innovation. Their most brilliant minds couldn’t figure him out.

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    We’re just gonna talk about Vance’s hometown like any of that is true?

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      “the elites had it coming”, but they won’t be the one’s catching the worst of this next administration. I suspect there are college graduates on both sides of the aisle. FU NYT, you helped to create this coming debacle.

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    So fucking rich that it’s the NYT suggesting they effectively reported the facts and own no culpability.

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    They still have it coming. Unless they’re personally on Trump’s hit list they’re going to be too wealthy and insulated to feel any real consequences from a Trump administration. The people who are going to suffer the most are minorities and poor people.

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    Uh, how are the elites going to have anything coming but more tax breaks and more special privileges? If things get bad enough for liberal elites, they can just move, and keep their money. Elites are not going to suffer; it is the poor and middle class, no matter how they voted.

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    The elites won’t pay for this…not as much as the guys who voted for him.

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    “settler colonialism”… My problem with this bit of academic jargon was not that it was wrong… but rather that it offered a glimpse of our poisoned class relations

    This pale, racist bro has no clue who the actual victims of settler colonialism are. Zero mention of any genocide at any time or place. He just wants to protect the feelings of his fellow pale people with delusional myths.

    The dems/“elites” lost because they unilaterally imposed a completely uninspiring, genocidal cop on us.