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The life lessons I learned over breakfast with a Trump supporter | Emma Brockes

A chance encounter at the buffet made me wonder if instead of nodding and smiling I should be passionately disagreeing
‘This person felt weak and admired Trump, claiming him as a tribal affiliate because he aligned with his idea of what it is to be strong.’ Trump supporters at a rally in Louisiana. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

I was in a hotel in a rural part of northern California, asking a man at the breakfast buffet what he thought of Barack Obama. Up to that point, we had been talking, affably, about drug addiction, paganism and the likelihood of a volcano in the area blowing any time soon, before moving on to

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