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radius777

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3. Exactly, I think Feingold's loss was most telling.
Sun Nov 27, 2016, 07:17 PM
Nov 2016

If we are to believe the narrative peddled by the berniebot alt-left, white working class voters mainly came out for Trump despite his racism/sexism, and overlooked it because they wanted his populism and anti-establishment vibe.

Yet, these same voters, according to this theory, should have, once given the chance to vote for a non-racist/liberal populist like Feingold, crossed over to vote for him for senate instead of a small-gov't free-trading tea partier like Ron Johnson.

Not only that, but most of these Trump voters voted for establishment GOP senate candidates all across the country.

This election was about white tribal identity, and the party (GOP) they view to stand for those values was the one they supported. Trump rose to power because he shouted out white identity loudly instead of using the typical GOP dog whistles, which the alt-right considers wimpy/cuck compared to Trump, who excites them.

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