austerity

Trump voters are about to get what they wanted...good and hard

At the risk of stereotyping a bit, Trump supporters are about to get screwed over like they have long demanded to be.
The American social safety net was already horribly underfunded.
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However, the real gutting of the social safety net are about to start.

Even the good, sympathetic stuff --

is marked by the wrong presuppositions.

Take for instance Steven W. Thrasher's piece in the Guardian, "If Hillary Clinton loses in November, it won't be Bernie Sanders' fault." Both the piece and its author are sympathetic, or at least it can be said that I am convinced that Thrasher is one of the good guys. However...

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