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Today, Sessions is still more conservative than about three-quarters of his GOP colleagues, but he’s no longer an outlier.
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Working class whites helped deliver the election to Donald Trump, and Kathy Cramer can help explain why.
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Trump understood the importance that the white working class feel as though it was being heard, and he tapped into deep, slow-moving resentments.
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“It’s absolutely racist to think that black people don’t work as hard as white people. So what? We write off a huge chunk of the population as racist and therefore their concerns aren’t worth attending to?”