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The insidious reason people still think Trump is honest: NYT columnist
What happened
AlterNet reports that New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie attributes Donald Trump’s perceived honesty to a cultural habit of mistaking openly expressed prejudice for candor. In Bouie’s account, racist statements can make Trump appear truthful to voters who already accept the assumptions behind them.
Bouie based his argument partly on a New York Times focus-group response from “Sebastian,” a 50-year-old white independent and former Trump voter. Sebastian said he viewed Trump as someone who “spoke what was on his mind,” voted for him again largely over economics, and now…
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