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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing empathy to politics

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Left's Disappointment With the Democratic Party

West Virginia is an interesting case of a state that I struggle with how to interpret its changes more generously. It's a state that really had its powerful swing around Obama. And in some ways, I wonder sometimes if folks who are a little bit more liberal, they're very comfortable with the idea that it's economic despair motivating the stuff. So there can be this dialogue on the left that it's all motivated by economics, but it doesn't quite have the output you might expect from that.

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