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from NYT
What does the phrase "I looked at....the untapped political suppport for anyone--even a kid like me..." from the passage below mean??
The passage is from a NYT article.
"It surprises me now how often Mr. Trump and my 19-year-old self would have agreed on our platforms: tariffs to bring back factory jobs, increased policing of black communities, deporting illegal workers and the belief that American culture was threatened. I looked at my white friends and family who felt dispossessed, at the untapped political support for anyone — even a kid like me — who wasn’t afraid to talk about threats to our people from outsiders, and I knew not only that white nationalism was right, but that it could win."
The passage is from a NYT article.
"It surprises me now how often Mr. Trump and my 19-year-old self would have agreed on our platforms: tariffs to bring back factory jobs, increased policing of black communities, deporting illegal workers and the belief that American culture was threatened. I looked at my white friends and family who felt dispossessed, at the untapped political support for anyone — even a kid like me — who wasn’t afraid to talk about threats to our people from outsiders, and I knew not only that white nationalism was right, but that it could win."
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"I looked at ... the untapped political suppport for anyone ... who wasn’t afraid to talk about threats to our people from outsiders" means that he saw that people would support any politician who would talk about those threats.
- "I looked at ...
- the untapped political suppport for anyone ...
- who wasn’t afraid to talk about threats to our people from outsiders" means that he saw that people would support any politician who would talk about those threats.
- "...
- " means that people would even support a kid like him, if he wasn't afraid to talk about those threats.
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"I looked at ... the untapped political suppport for anyone ... who wasn’t afraid to talk about threats to our people from outsiders" means that he saw that people would support any politician who would talk about those threats.
"... even a kid like me ..." means that people would even support a kid like him, if he wasn't afraid to talk about those threats.
"... even a kid like me ..." means that people would even support a kid like him, if he wasn't afraid to talk about those threats.
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