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Assessing the Midterm Election Results and the Future of Liberalism

Zooming In at The UnPopulist

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Trump Is Not a Kingmaker

The strategy that if we can get the nuttiest people to win the primary, they'll be easier to defeat in the actual election. A whole lot of worry among political commentators and analysts about this strategy because it was basically a version of the strategy they used in 2016 with Trump himself. The evidence is pretty clear they actually did successfully put the crazy Trumpy Republican over the line in a closely fought primary.

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