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There's the basket of deplorables, who are bigots of various stripes, misogynists, anti-Muslim, racists, homophobes.

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George Packer
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 13
Journalist
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I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.
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I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.
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