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In a long and thoughtful article, Elizabeth Kolsky convincingly argues that the key to Donald Trump’s appeal was not the “Make America Great” portion of his slogan, but rather the “Again.” She posits that he offered what many of his supporters saw as continuity with America’s racist past, rather than change, which means acceptance of its pluralist present. Almost in an aside, she wonders

How could he say all these things about all these people and still win the election? I wondered out loud. My child responded with the most pithy and pointed postelection analysis I have heard to date: “But Mom, he never said he hated white people.”

As it turns out, this is also the key to explaining why 53 percent of white women voted for Trump.

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