Once again being a guy who gets pedantic about whether UN Comtrade data is a reasonable proxy for following critical mineral supply chains

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they had a choice between serious electoral inroads with conservative nonwhite groups or Even More Racism and they chose option b

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ultimately the bigotry is the point so true compromise and coalition building maybe wasn't ever in the cards but you also don't have to record podcasts on "The Indian Question" and a group of people that clearly has no aversion to constant outright lying chose odd ground for honesty imo

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too early to tell how this is going electorally speaking but generally I find the US right's loudness wrt anti-Asian racism bizarre strategically speaking, especially since they adopted opposition to DEI as a major front and had many other plays wrt Hindu nationalism and the like

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There is a widespread notion that the 2015 refugee crisis fatally undermined Angela Merkel's popularity, but when you look at the data, was back at +40% among the general population by 2017.

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