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The American Right w/ Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell

The Dig

CHAPTER

The Aspirational Bootstrap

i think there is a way in which sometimes h the aspirational bootstrap message could be appealing to various immigrant groups, or just people kind of on the more margins of our society who aren't doing particularly well. And trump, i think, is a kind of ontr even though we know, you know, he's a terrible business man, et cetera. But like his an aspirational, entrepinorial figure, i think maybe played a part too. The business man, that was factor. You know, above all, it's, as you're getting at, our racial categories aren't stable. Which means,you know, these categories are shifting all the time

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