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Sanders, Clinton Supporters Can't Condescend to Trump Supporters

By Timothy H. Lee
Wednesday, March 02 2016

Regardless of whether one supports Donald Trump, opposes him, adores him, detests him or is indifferent to him, at least one thing is clear. Trump and his supporters are endlessly slurred as sans-culottes, crude commoners worthy only of smug condescension, both intellectual and moral. That smugness is particularly concentrated among Bernie Sanders supporters and Hillary Clinton supporters. There's just one problem. Sanders and Clinton supporters are themselves hoodwinked by crude slogans and unjust policy positions. It's just that their sloganeering is of the…

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