He stepped in it big time by saying small town folks cling to guns and religion, that they don't like immigrants or people who don't look like them because they're bitter over losing jobs and have lost faith in Washington. His supporters think he spoke a difficult truth, and he did speak the truth as he sees it. But I disagree. If people are religious, if they embrace of guns, or have antipathy to outsiders -- even if true of all small town folks (which is doubtful) it is not a phenomenon of job loss in the past 25 years. As usual, he's lecturing and he's welcome to his point of view. It sounds grounded in the Marxist view of religion as the opiate of the masses. It's a philosophy that may be popular in universities but it does not belong in the White House.
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but does he cut his cats lose?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2702804.ece
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