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Two 'Contrarian' Thoughts on the Election

I'm steeling myself for a Trump victory tonight, but I very much hope I'm wrong.

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I’m not going to cry this time if Trump wins. No one should cry over an election, as I discussed in my latest Washington Post column. But that’s not to say that I won’t be sad and distraught. I will be.

Depending on the day, I sometimes squint and see myself as a single-issue voter. Even if Republicans were awesome on a…

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