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Betting on Trump: Bonus Episode

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Mark chats with his only Facebook friend supporting Donald Trump: Bob Barnes, a Yale classmate he hasn't seen in 22 years. Barnes, a lawyer and self-described populist who hasn't voted in a presidential election since 1992, put $125,000 on a Trump win at 4 to 1 odds in London. Now a half million dollars richer, he talks to Mark about why he supports the President-Elect, how he saw this result coming, and what the left needs to do to win back the middle. Like listening to Unorthodox? Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes and more. Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com with comments, questions, and kvetches. We may share your letter on air. Shalom, friends.

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semi-weekly podcast from tablet magazine I'm Mark Oppenheimer I got no Liel I got no

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0:53.4

I had exactly one person in my Facebook feed during this election season who was pimping Donald

1:06.7

Trump. It's a guy whom I went to college with back in the mid 90s at Yale and he dropped out early in his junior year to say that he was

1:16.5

sick of our elitism and he was going back to Tennessee where he was from.

1:20.7

His name was Bob Barnes and he had become this sort of campus figure as the kind of

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outspoken white southern white rural agrarian populist he identified pretty much with liberal or leftist politics but from a very sort of

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populist New Deal angle which was you know help the farmers help the union workers

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and he had a lot of scorn as I recall for what he saw as limousine liberals and elitist liberals.

1:47.5

So in some ways he seemed to culturally identify more with the small community of campus conservatives even though his politics were different

1:53.9

from theirs.

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And then he dropped out as I said.

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