Christopher Parker

University of Washington

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Christopher Parker is a professor of political science at the University of Washington and co-author of Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America.

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The name "Trump" takes up two stories atop a Chicago skyscraper, but the President has singled out the city for concentrated "carnage."

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