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Why do Trump voters say they support Trump?

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Carl Beijer
Oct 16, 2016
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Dylan Matthews, in a new piece for Vox, is back to rejecting “the idea that [Trump] voters are motivated by economic struggles”. This time around, he has a new argument:

Taking Trump voters’ concerns seriously means listening to what they’re actually saying…describing these people as motivated by racial resentment…[is] supported by extensive amounts of s…

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