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subvention

This strangely socialistic subvention to neoliberalism not only encourages rural voters in the fantasy that they are rugged individualists uncontaminated by handouts, but jeapordises what little the US possesses in the way of social democracy

—p.77 Celebrity Apprentice: Notes on the US Election (61) by Benjamin Kunkel
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picayune

seems almost picayune compared to the other damage he threatens

—p.76 Celebrity Apprentice: Notes on the US Election (61) by Benjamin Kunkel
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vitiate

the symbolic force of Clinton’s campaign was vitiated by its political timidity

—p.74 Celebrity Apprentice: Notes on the US Election (61) by Benjamin Kunkel
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vitiate

the symbolic force of Clinton’s campaign was vitiated by its political timidity

—p.74 Celebrity Apprentice: Notes on the US Election (61) by Benjamin Kunkel
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parlous

From time to time, uncoordinated sightings of real conditions emerged in candidate Trump’s unscripted monologues, in allusions to the parlous state of American infrastructure or the diminished life chances of rural whites

—p.64 Celebrity Apprentice: Notes on the US Election (61) by Benjamin Kunkel
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