Toner notes that the candidates as a whole are appealing “to a far more polarized, us-against-them electorate” than existed during the centrist Clinton administration and the kinder, gentler 1990’s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Maybe I was just drunk during the 1990s, but I don’t remember anything kinder or gentler about the decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
… with “kinder, gentler.” Can we please toss this one out of the airlock, please? The vacuum of space would do it some good. The tipping-point passage: Toner notes that the candidates as a whole are appealing “to a far…<\/p>\n
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