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    Burn It All Down

    Aug 01, 2018 4 minutes
    By Justin Miller

    THE RISE OF DONALD J. TRUMP REPEATEDLY CONFOUNDED political scholars, reporters, pundits and campaign operatives alike. Time after time, those who closely follow politics failed to see what was right before their eyes: a guttural cry from the heart of white America. ¶ Election Day, inevitably, has been followed by a ceaseless churn of new books on the greatest electoral upset in American history, as writers and publishers look to cash in, cover their asses, issue a mea culpa or all of the above. But until now, an election that always seemed to border on fiction has hardly gotten the novelist’s touch

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