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> Especially if, in the end, we each still stand alone in the voting booth and pull the lever based on how we've been made to feel.

For a lot of people, the only way they can safely say that the social movement has gone too far, is by voting for Trump. If they disagree in public, the mob will come for them. However, in the privacy of the voting booth, they will pull the lever for the one person they know these people hate, not because they love Trump, but because it is their one way to protest against the mob.



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