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Brown Study

Brown study

25 May 2019

9:00 AM

25 May 2019

9:00 AM

Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US election the day she called Donald Trump’s supporters ‘a basket of deplorables’. After that, it was all over. It showed such contempt for people that enough of them decided they would not vote for her – and carried through on the promise. The election in Australia had a similar turning point when Bill Shorten took to referring to great swathes of the middle class as ‘the top end of town’, i.e.,

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