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Or when he said smart people don't like me recently. No shit.
But it's no secret why he's popular with some of the working class, or shouldn't be, if it's a mystery to you it's a sign you are being deliberately misled by people you trust. He looks like he's fighting the status quo. That's it.
He seems like he's fighting the corrupt system. And he is, he is just fighting to make it more corrupt for him. But we all know the public doesn't know that. So it's no excuse for not running our own campaigns that can win.