Obama deserves blame for Trump’s rise

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Pundits and politicians have racked their brains to explain Donald Trump’s persistence as a powerful political phenomenon. What if a large part of the answer has been staring them in the face all along?

President Obama and Bernie Sanders have both applied their amateur psychoanalyses, only to arrive at the lazy and self-serving conclusion that it results from angry white men feeling insecure about their economic situation.

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