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    Code Switch

    How the right appropriated “American exceptionalism”
    by MUGAMBI JOUET Jan 01, 2017 3 minutes
    MEDIA MENTIONS OF “AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM”

    DID YOU EVER wonder why Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan took such root among the Republican base? Did it symbolize a return to an age when wages were higher and jobs more secure? Or was it coded racial language designed to signal a rollback to a time when people of color (and women) knew their place? In the soul-searching and recrimination among Democrats after Hillary Clinton’s defeat, both theories have their

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