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On the recordNovember 25, 2020
What's always interesting to me is the degree to which we have created -- you have seen created in Republican politics this sense that white males are victims, like, they're the ones who are, like, under attack, which obviously doesn't jibe with both history and data and economics.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois
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Obama discusses the narrative of victimhood among white males in Republican politics.

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