Trump Democrats are for real

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When President-elect Trump promised he could win the votes of Reagan Democrats, most political media declared that there were none left.

Yes, they existed in the 1980s, but that was then and this is now, it was said. And now they were all already Republicans. So Trump was hunting for a chimera, a beast that didn’t exist. He’d get no votes from that source.

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