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Author Archives: Chris Faraone

Chris Faraone
Posted inPolitics

Wall Flowers: Waiting for Trump With Every Racist Aunt and Uncle in New England

by Chris Faraone February 5th, 2016December 16th, 2020

There’s a man with a dark complexion hocking “Bomb The Hell Out of ISIS” lapel pins. His heart’s not really in it. The next vendor over from him isn’t legitimately feeling the energy, either, his long hair and thick Boston accent a dead giveaway that he’s a foreigner in Trump country. In any case, the […]

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