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3. Elon Musk, Donald Trump – and Should Journalists Be Rooting for Democracy?

Is This Democracy

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Is Donald Trump Electable?

Perry: I'm always nervous when the media and the Republican elite, which missed the Trump rise, all kind of a collective decision that this is what happened because they usually are wrong. The problem with Donald Trump in their view is he is electorally problematic to them. He has strong support still among non-college educated Republicans. And again, there's been a lot of chatter in the mainstream political discourse basically saying, oh, look,Trump is done. Perry: We don't actually know if Trump is bad politically. It's also sort of a lazy way out of the problem, which is not just Donald Trump, but how many people like that.

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