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So, So Good: I'm With Her (Aoife O'Donovan, Sarah Jarosz and Sara Watkins) on NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))4/05/2018 12:55:36 am PDT

re: #231 Lupin

I think Trump is the logical end-product of American society, just as much as Hitler was the result of the many failings of the German (but also French and British) politics of the post WWI era.

In 1831, Tocqueville had already commented on the “vulgarity and mediocrity” of American politics noting that the low tone started at the top (in his case, after meeting Andrew Jackson).

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product of two things:

an electorate that felt alienated and fed up with politicians and politics as usual

a GOP that was willing to make a deal with the devil to get those people to vote for them