If we are to believe conventional wisdom

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30. Of course it isn't because it is flat-out propaganda.

I have written about how feature writers openly solicit people for articles, and then the writers select the most interesting interviewees for publication in their papers.

It is SOP. Nothing wrong with it but people need to realize you can't extrapolate on the basis of a handful of people.

A few years ago, thanks to having been a participant on a discussion board of unemployed people, I was in email correspondence with a New York Times reporter named Michael Luo. I was going through severe financial hardship (still am though not quite as severely), and he did several email interviews with me. He was doing a series of articles about people who were negatively affected by the last economic downturn. My story was not selected for publication.

Yes, he exists:

http://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-luo


In the case of Trump, it is clear what the meme is. They are trying to draw false comparisons between Trump and Reagan.

I believe there were FAR more "Clinton Republicans" than there were EVER "Trump Democrats."