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When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is.

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George Packer
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 13
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I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.
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When Donald Trump yells at his supporters to throw somebody out of the hall - and usually that somebody is brown or black or often is - that means he's galvanizing a kind of mob spirit, which is also a racial mob spirit.
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If Hillary Clinton becomes president, how is she going to be able to get the country behind her when she seems like a political figure from another era?
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American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.
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We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
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