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		pxmpxm on Feb 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Cana... That's your cognitive dissonance speaking; it's a demonstrable fact that Trump took a large part of the blue collar/union electorate in 2016.

dane-pgp on Feb 5, 2022 [–]

But he wasn't appealing to those voters on the basis of increasing the power of unions against rich business owners.

The question is whether those voters wanted other things more than that (and whether Trump managed to deliver those other things to their satisfaction).

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