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“I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.”

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Andrew O'Hagan
Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew O'Hagan is an accomplished Irish novelist born in 1968. His works are renowned for their profound emotional depth and unique narrative style, exploring themes of personal identity, moral dilemmas, and the essence of human existence in modern society. more

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