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In Defense of Elitism

why I'm better than you and you're better than someone who didn't buy this book

by Joel Stein

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Stein spends a week in Roberts County, Texas, which had the highest percentage of Trump voters in the country. He goes to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; meets people who create fake news; and finds the new elitist organizations merging both right and left to fight the populists.

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