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> She's talking about more than 30 million voters there. She's actively rejecting them, and criticising Trump for engaging with them.

Ok, but let's say there are 5M xenophobic people. What's your proposed solution for bringing them back into the fold?

It used to be that there was a shared basis of facts. Numbers don't lie, you can explain them any way you want though.

In the past 10 years, America has really just lost it's ability to look at numbers. Partially because of them being explained differently by both sides but mostly I think because of actively discrediting them by one side that doesn't want to talk numbers, but feelings.

Trump wants to address feelings, he'll lose any other debate. He doesn't know his facts, he doesn't care about them, he's basically built his life on selling a brand. And a brand is whatever you think it is today.



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