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18 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Kennedy was a Democrat in 2004 who supported John Kerry. HRC receives a lot of criticism bc she lost in 2016 but even while Obama won twice, there was a steady defection to the GOP from white Dems like Kennedy over the past 20 yrs
And it’s naive to claim it’s bc of Sanders-style liberalism. Kennedy was a Dem when Ted Kennedy was lion of the Senate
As the Democratic Party became more overtly diverse, there was white flight from the neighborhood
And pols who were Dems during the Clinton era suddenly started talking like Rush Limbaugh
But those white guys had often sounded like Limbaugh in private

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There is such dramatic irony in these dramatic shifts occurring between Bill Clinton’s presidency and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
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I still like the musical despite having endured Grease Hell back in 1997.
I sold programs/souvenirs at Grease for a while. Now, every other theatre let you lock up your station during the show so you could leave if you wanted. (You technically worked a half hour before the show, during intermission, and right after the show).
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