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Corey Robin

Corey Robin is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin andFear: The History of a Political Idea.

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The campaign exposed ugly currents in American politics. But Donald Trump may be headed for a McGovern-level defeat.

By Corey Robin