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How Glenn Beck Laid the Tracks for the Trump Train

Going Rogue

Not so long ago, a TV talker built a political movement of well-off white supporters prone to conspiracy theories about unaccountable elites draining America’s former greatness.

Glynnis MacNicol
Glynnis MacNicol
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