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Re:In China Trade War, Apple Worries It Will Be Collateral D... by martythemaniak on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @01:26PM (#17348559)
I thought by this point the whole "economic anxiety caused Trump" had become a euphemism for white racial resentment.

I guess some people still take it literally?

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Re:In China Trade War, Apple Worries It Will Be Collateral D... by darpa_escapee on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @01:39PM (#17348694)
The feeling of financial insecurity certainly exists in Americans, but it does not exist as the reason Trump was elected.
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Re:In China Trade War, Apple Worries It Will Be Collateral D... by martythemaniak on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @01:59PM (#17348899)
Well, that's your opinion (also happens to be my opinion) but is certainly not other people's.

It was a very popular idea amongst the far-left during the campaign and immediately after. Glenn Greenwald managed to write a 3000+ word treatise on the causes of the Brexit vote without once mentioning "immigration". I thought was quite the work of idealogical contortion and purity, but I don't think it's aged well at all. Plenty of people still seem to subscribe to these ideas though.

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/25/brexit-is-only-the-lates...

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