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I shudder to think how much of a role the fact of the Dems having two incredibly bad candidates running in the general election played in Trump's victory. I doubt if there have been two worse major party nominees in US history.

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A bit too soon to be making sweeping reappraisals in my view. This is, after all, a sample size of 1 with an historically bad D opponent vs one of the most charismatic men alive. And, of course, the only groups Trump actually won were white men, white women, and latino males (many of whom are largely white racially).

So long as our laws tolerate and indeed reward ethnocentrism in every group but whites, there will be a powerful incentive for every group to behave ethnocentrically, which can only be to the detriment of a civic nationalist party like the GOP. If this administration takes up the challenge of dismantling that system and retains popular support, I will revise my opinion. We’ll see.

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