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San Francisco Magazine, Author of "How California Gave Us Trumpism"
Contributing writer at San Francisco Magazine, Author of "How California Gave Us Trumpism."
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Scott Lucas
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FROM Scott Lucas
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Conservative California and the rise of Trump Donald Trump billed his presidential win as a triumph of Middle America over coastal liberalism -- made possible by the forgotten people of the Midwest and the South. But California served as a major incubator for the hard-line conservative thinking that helped propel him to the White House. It’s an ideology birthed out of opposition to the liberal politics and multiculturalism that now dominate the state.
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