Fight the Power
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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The Politics of Primaries
In the age of social media and cable news, how primaries work is it whichever candidate can most rile up the primary voter gets to become the nominee. And that was basically donald trump's gift in 20 16, as he high jacked a party waiting to be high jacked by doing all the rabble rousing stuff. The irony being that the republicans a set up their primary with t with the sort of the winner take all, a delegate counts. Was set up specifically so that somebo who was an institutional entity would be able to capture a majority of vote. That's what they were trying to undue back during the progressive reforms a hundred years ago, and this is just
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