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Paul Krugman: Our Unknown Country (NYT)
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:44 PM Author: electric state Paul Krugman: Our Unknown Country
By Paul Krugman
10:58 PM ET
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/the-unknown-country
We still don’t know who will win the electoral college, although as I write this it looks — incredibly, horribly — as if the odds now favor Donald J. Trump. What we do know is that people like me, and probably like most readers of The New York Times, truly didn’t understand the country we live in. We thought that our fellow citizens would not, in the end, vote for a candidate so manifestly unqualified for high office, so temperamentally unsound, so scary yet ludicrous.
We thought that the nation, while far from having transcended racial prejudice and misogyny, had become vastly more open and tolerant over time.
We thought that the great majority of Americans valued democratic norms and the rule of law.
It turns out that we were wrong. There turn out to be a huge number of people — white people, living mainly in rural areas — who don’t share at all our idea of what America is about. For them, it is about blood and soil, about traditional patriarchy and racial hierarchy. And there were many other people who might not share those anti-democratic values, but who nonetheless were willing to vote for anyone bearing the Republican label.
I don’t know how we go forward from here. Is America a failed state and society? It looks truly possible. I guess we have to pick ourselves up and try to find a way forward, but this has been a night of terrible revelations, and I don’t think it’s self-indulgent to feel quite a lot of despair.
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:45 PM Author: Charismatic Range im so done with caring what this hateful kike thinks. cant wait for trump to literally have him culled. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31845699) |
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:46 PM Author: garnet headpube jap if he can't be honest with himself after defeat, well..
they still won't acknowledge/recognize the reasons they lost. this piece is exactly why |
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:46 PM Author: cordovan talented locus http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418922&mc=1&forum_id=2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31845728) |
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:46 PM Author: pearly twisted depressive THE TEARS OF UNFATHOMABLE SORROW (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31845732) |
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:47 PM Author: cyan boltzmann could someone email him that Cracked article? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31845756) |
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:48 PM Author: nubile main people whorehouse he just doesn't get it. middling IQ. very sad! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31845780) |
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:48 PM Author: Swashbuckling heaven striped hyena cr
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/ |
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:47 PM Author: nudist theater zip it, faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31845758) |
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:48 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy hospital choo choo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31845788) |
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Date: November 8th, 2016 11:48 PM Author: Jet-lagged Exciting Famous Landscape Painting Partner "It turns out that we were wrong. There turn out to be a huge number of people — white people, living mainly in rural areas — who don’t share at all our idea of what America is about. For them, it is about blood and soil, about traditional patriarchy and racial hierarchy."
he's right
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Date: November 9th, 2016 2:25 AM Author: chest-beating amber space people who are hurt And thank god. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31849986) |
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Date: November 9th, 2016 2:27 AM Author: irradiated cruise ship or at least about NOT dismantling those things. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31850017) |
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Date: November 9th, 2016 2:24 AM Author: Unhinged locale libs, does this summarize your sentiment? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31849958) |
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Date: November 9th, 2016 2:25 AM Author: Shaky Burgundy Toilet Seat gas krugman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31849970) |
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Date: November 9th, 2016 2:25 AM Author: Up-to-no-good Incel lol at this histrionic kike. does anyone actually take this drivel seriously now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31849979) |
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Date: November 9th, 2016 2:26 AM Author: Awkward church building sound barrier i thought he was merely an opportunistic shill, but it seems as though he might be a true believer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31850003) |
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Date: November 9th, 2016 2:30 AM Author: self-absorbed principal's office Delicious (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#31850096) |
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Date: February 11th, 2025 2:13 PM Author: Harry Bolz this Paul Krugman fellow seems like a really really smart guy and a true American patriot! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3418971&forum_id=2#48646815) |