Senin, 30 Januari 2017

Dèjá Vu: Of Scales and Thumbs

Sticks & Stones<br /> An 1857 vote had partisans and pooches beefing in the street.The homestretch of the 2016 election resounded with Donald Trump’s charge that the whole thing was fixed—“absolutely being rigged,” as the candidate put it, on Twitter and in person. By this, Trump meant that mainstream media was against him—not hard to demonstrate. But Trump also meant that he would suffer from fraud at the polls. …

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