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Joe: Trump’s victory was history rhyming with itself again
Joe: Trump’s victory was history rhyming with itself again
FILE-In this Thursday, June 28, 2012, file photo, The White House is seen in Washington. High unemployment threatens not only President Barack Obama’s re-election prospects. It will also bedevil whoever occupies the White House for the next four years. According to 32 economists surveyed by the Associated Press, the unemployment rate, now 8.2 percent, will […]AP
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MS NOW staff
Joe Scarborough writes in The Washington Post:
Less than two years after Obama’s inauguration, the tea party was swept into power. Voters even checked the president’s 2012 reelection win a few years later with the largest congressional majority for Republicans since 1928.
With such jagged voting patterns, Americans proved themselves worthy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s definition of a “first-rate intelligence”: Somehow functioning while holding “two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.”
But even Fitzgerald would be flummoxed by Midwest voters pulling the lever for Obama twice and then Donald Trump last month. Yet they did, and in so doing confirmed once again that the urge for political change usually has less to do with our nation’s character than with disgust toward Washington.
