I was on a stage with several people, you know, and the question of trump came up. I criticised trump in front of an audience that was mainly supportive of him. And i said, there is something absolutely unsustainable about the fact that he's got a really horrible character. The minute that the results came out, the right started to lie about them. It did it both demeans their opponents, and it demeans themselves. Culture is not this expendable thing. We ave in so far as we we surmount,. It a mere nature red and to claw we arrive fully in culture. In politics is a strand of that, but it is much more to it than
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