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> Trump is aligned with your average American ... against your average American college professor.

Your ellipses edits-out the very point I was making, the specific issue of affirmative action. Your average American is indeed aligned with Trump on affirmative action against the average college professor. And on immigration and a host of other issues.

> and the popular vote is evidence that in fact the other candidate in both 2016 and 2020 was aligned with your average American.

The popular vote is evidence that Trump is a crass, unstable, unlikable person, who lost the election to someone who people perceived to be a decent guy.

And “billionaires” aren’t the only elites. For all of history we have recognized the people purporting to answer questions about the nature of the universe and humanity as clerical elites. University professors serve that exact same function in our society and are, in anthropological terms, properly classified as elites.




> The popular vote is evidence that Trump is a crass, unstable, unlikable person

OK, that's a very defensible claim. Let's see how he does (on both metrics) in November?




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