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One narrative emerging around the surprisingly
resilient Donald Trump portrays the brash billionaire as a final card
laid down by Republican blue-collar voters who see their way of life —
and their political clout — draining away in a bathtub spiral.
Trump has been a man of last resort before. Right here in Georgia, in fact.
And if his Republican presidential machine doesn’t seize upon the tale
in the next few weeks, as he and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas battle for
Southern votes, then someone in the Trump campaign will be guilty of
gross incompetence.
It happened in 1986, in the midst of the worst farm
crisis since the Great Depression. In Burke County, on Georgia’s eastern
border, farm after farm was folding.
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