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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Gillepsie's Xenophobic Race-Baiting Worked

In starting to dissect the results from Virginia, the WaPo notes that Gillespie actually OUTPERFORMED Cuccinelli's run for governor  in rural Virginia.  He turned out and won Republicans in rural Virginia.

Worth remembering that Trump didn't come from nowhere.  He's a perfect avatar for a certain wing of the Republican Party.

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