But outside that hard core, I also believe there is a silent majority within Trump's self-proclaimed silent majority.
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" The silent majority: 'No one's looking out for the white guy anymore' Energizing the Trump movement are voters who call themselves the "silent majority.
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Critics in the "silent majority" Standing in sharp contrast on the other side are members of the self-dubbed "silent majority" -- people who oppose the unrest.
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This silent majority sweep the board year in, year out.
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No longer willing to be part of a silent majority!
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Call 'em the silent majority, the silent number or whatever.
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This silent majority allowed this culture to fester and thrive.
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"We are the megaphone of a silent majority," she claims.
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"... I always think there is a silent majority," he said.
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Trump-branded signs intoning the slogan "THE SILENT MAJORITY STANDS WITH TRUMP" festoon his rallies, and optimistic writers invoke the notion of a silent majority to tout theories that the polls are undercounting Trump voters.
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Mr. Trump is fond of describing his followers as a silent majority.
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This silent majority is now finding its voice, thanks to two developments.
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Trump spoke to those people, "the silent majority" as he calls them.
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And sometimes a silent majority is too silent for its own good.
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To kids like me, he was the sound of the silent majority.
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Pop stars may have stan armies, but rappers have the silent majority.
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Fortunately, the silent majority of the conservative-leaning justice supporters won out.
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"I think there is a silent majority," Hickenlooper told CNN in January, "a new silent majority that wants to elect people that get stuff done, stop fighting, stop hurling invective and roll up their sleeves and start working together."
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Rock fans also make up a sort of silent majority of music buyers.
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They, not the 60m who voted for Mr Trump, are the silent majority.
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Silent Majority, has been, and always will be, an unholy alliance between the
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However, Nixon's political focus on white voters, the "Silent Majority," is well-known.
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He is trying to re-muzzle the silent majority that he disagrees with.
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And all along, we thought the "silent majority" was just a Republican phenomenon.
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Trump voters took to calling themselves the "silent majority" on the campaign trail.
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Nixon gave a nationally-broadcast speech in November, 1969 using that "silent majority" term.
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He even resurrected Richard Nixon's "silent majority" rhetoric, phrasing suggested to Nixon by Buchanan.
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The sooner the silent majority of MPs makes the most of this, the better.
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Health Minister Miloslav Ludvik said the ban would open restaurants to the "silent majority".
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The silent majority appears to have been interested in what 'Ye' was all about.
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"The silent majority is starting to get annoyed with what's going on," Sorbo continued.
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Sarkozy calls himself the voice of France's "silent majority", the same term Trump used.
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But Clinton's silent majority is also hard to see precisely because it's so diverse.
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But the original point about Nixon's silent majority was the exact opposite of this.
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The silent majority has touched my face, done my makeup, watches "Gilmore Girls" religiously.
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There is a super silent majority in California that feels completely marginalized and unrepresented.
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"The silent majority is back," Trump said, identifying his voters precisely as Nixon did.
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The unspoken message from the silent majority is crystal clear: We are not welcome here.
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It was the first time that the silent majority opposed to independence found its voice.
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Former president Richard Nixon frequently spoke of a "silent majority" that was invisible in polls.
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We're the voices of a silent majority who want new leadership & to protect new members.
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They were, as Nixon memorably described them, the "silent majority," a phrase Trump recently appropriated.
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" Mr. Lassiter is the author of "The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South.
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The emboldened silent majority speckled the streets, sporting their red "Make America Great Again" caps.
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The supposed "silent majority" of anti-protest voters failed to show up on Sunday however.
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There has been too much of the 'silent majority' — at both ends of the generation gap.
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That "silent majority" and its descendants now recognize — and admit — how terribly wrong its members were.
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The country's real silent majority prefers Democrats, if only that majority could be stirred to vote.
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WHEN THE "silent majority" found its voice, it did not use it as the authorities hoped.
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"They mentioned a while ago about a silent majority — it's back," he said at the time.
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The "silent majority" turns out to back the protesters' cause, despite the violent tactics of some.
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These were the so-called "silent majority" of voters who did not believe Catalonia should secede.
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This tacitly approving silent majority, after all, keep voting for him on the RA poll in droves.
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But I really wonder when he says this: There's a silent majority of hopeful, practical, programmatic Republicans.
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Many pro-union Catalans believe they are a silent majority, drowned out by noisy supporters of independence.
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And they were the silent majority in the past but now they are loud raising their voices.
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Was it a primal scream of race panic that, for a time, drowned out a silent majority?
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This has gospel implications not only for minorities and immigrants but for the so-called silent majority.
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For many in the silent majority, the country seemed on the brink of widespread chaos and anarchy.
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And in a closed primary the increasingly large silent majority of independent voters don't get a say.
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The results of the 220006 election brought out a silent majority that had felt ignored for decades.
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If the real people of America, the silent majority, are going to survive, they must educate themselves.
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He watched Nixon rally the silent majority with a law-and-order message and racial dog whistling.
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And the silent majority of Americans who did not vote for Trump are not feeling especially hopeful.
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There's a silent majority here, a Greek chorus with their voices muffled, and they're unmistakably on Hill's side.
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He frequently tweets and speaks about commanding the loyalty and admiration of a silent majority of real Americans.
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On immigration, as on so much else, Trump doesn't represent a silent majority but an extremely vocal minority.
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And so tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
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Under Trump, coded rhetoric like Reagan's "welfare queen" and Nixon's "silent majority," was — and is — no longer coded.
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But by focusing on the covert racism of Nixon's "silent majority" talk, it's easy to mistake its purpose.
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Even if your friends didn't stand with you, there's plenty of other people in the silent majority that would.
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Bloomberg would play spoiler, all because he is hearing the voices of some imaginary silent majority in his head.
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One was Richard Nixon, whose concept of the "silent majority" was invoked to rapturous applause by the unsilent crowd.
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Sign the boycott petition to show the Red Hen that patriotic Trump supporters are the silent majority in Virginia!
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In their eyes, they are bold truth-tellers amid a silent majority that keeps quiet out of political correctness.
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It is a new "silent majority" that has been cowed into submission by a liberal press and cowardly politicians.
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Nixon was appealing to the "silent majority" of voters uneasy about counterculture movements and the threat of nuclear war.
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"But after the tumultuous 1960s, President Nixon appealed to the traditionalist views of the nation's 'silent majority,' " Page wrote.
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"As a silent majority, I demand Angela be dealt with as a traitor to our country," another person wrote.
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These women (and some men as well, it must always be noted) are the true Silent Majority of victims.
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Could they be the ghosts of Nixon's "great, silent majority" who, in his telling, supported his tactics in Vietnam?
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"The silent majority will go out and vote and they will vote for Senator Ted Cruz," said Gina O'Briant.
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They often call themselves the "silent majority," large in number but underrepresented in the country's news media and political institutions.
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This survey suggests they are not listening to the silent majority of welcoming citizens who take the refugee crisis personally.
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Keith Naughton, Ph.D., co-founder of Silent Majority Strategies, is a public affairs consultant who specialized in Pennsylvania judicial elections.
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" The pro-Trump rally, called the "Mother of All Rallies," or M.O.A.R, had been dubbed "Woodstock for the silent majority.
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The silent majority has seen me put on my head scarf in the morning and take it off at night.
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Trump has frequently compared his supporters to Reagan's "silent majority," arguing last September he has given those Americans a voice.
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By occupying significant positions, they are a dangerous power, as they constitute the silent majority who shape the general consensus.
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Richard Nixon talked about a "silent majority," but it was so silent in 1968 that it was only about 43 percent.
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The museum hails Nixon for rallying a "silent majority" of Americans who felt ignored and disdained by bossy, self-dealing elites.
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They also believe there is a silent majority that opposes this agenda, but remains too apathetic to do anything about it.
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It is more than Richard Nixon's appeal to the "silent majority" or his claim to be the "law and order" candidate.
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Private military contractors (PMC), sometimes referred to as mercenaries or guns-for-hire, are the silent majority of today's military activities.
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The Saudi silent majority is clearly fed up with the injustice of so many princes and billionaires ripping off their country.
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She wants to speak for what she perceives to be the dispossessed silent majority, who don't like immigration or political correctness.
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He spoke to the silent majority: ordinary middle-class Turks who pay their taxes and want to enlarge their bank accounts.
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There's a silent majority of black people -- you notice I don't use the term African-American -- of black people out there.
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I stand by my comments that we are experiencing an awakening from the silent majority—those who reject the elites & their bubble.
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Instead Trump marshaled a movement -- a modern day uprising of forgotten Americans, reminiscent of Richard Nixon's "silent majority" of the late 1960s.
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In November of 1969, Nixon asked "the great silent majority of my fellow Americans" for their support in remaining steadfast in Vietnam.
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Most voters are realists, not zealots, the thinking goes; by embracing pragmatism, presidential candidates like Klobuchar can win over this silent majority.
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"The silent majority has awakened," said Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire adviser who had caused controversy by seeming to threaten Hillary Clinton.
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I stand by my comments that we are experiencing an awakening from the silent majority — those who reject the elites & their bubble.
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GASP quickly spread through college towns and liberal enclaves, aiming to make what they called a "silent majority" as visible as possible.
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Published in 1970, the book was a sympathetic though not necessarily admiring portrait of President Richard M. Nixon's newly expressive silent majority.
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Of course, Airbus isn't doing this to please the weirdly chatty flyers of the world, to say nothing of the suffering, silent majority.
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I do believe that there is what Richard Nixon called a silent majority, but I don't think it works the way he described.
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But such groups, by claiming to speak for the well-being of native-born citizens, usually imply they're speaking for a silent majority.
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We aim to provide a voice to the silent majority who oppose La Familia, and football is a very powerful tool for this.
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Meanwhile, the great silent majority is pretty well satisfied with the direction of the country — and with the singularly unique president leading it.
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The Rabid Puppies and Beale passed themselves off a silent majority, and used online mockery, harassment, and propaganda to mount a virtual occupation.
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This silent majority will no longer stand by as the Trump administration tries to destroy a century of bipartisan love of the land.
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Members of the new silent majority recognize that most candidates, most of the time, will not be embracing their particular niche cultural cues.
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We are already seeing some of the "silent majority" emboldened to heckle, harass, spit on, and assault those they don't consider "real" Americans.
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"I'm hoping this will wake up the silent majority of Vermonters and get them out to vote and protect their rights," he said.
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President Richard Nixon openly courted the "silent majority," that group of Americans not protesting the Vietnam War or participating in the Civil Rights Movement.
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What I tend to think is that when things get bad enough, that usually silent majority engages with the intent of mellowing things out.
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It will be sometime before we start giving out Congressional medals of honor to CISOs – the silent majority who protect our data every day.
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Studying polls, they spy a "new silent majority" that is fed-up with the status quo, but is not ready to burn it down.
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Pence is the "silent majority," the instinctively-conservative everyman who needs a larger-than-life steamroller to batter down the doors of political correctness.
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" The phrase made frequent appearances in his stump speeches and flowed seamlessly into the connections he drew between himself and the nation's "silent majority.
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This figure includes students who take their lives due to academic pressures, but the silent majority are men and seniors who don't speak up.
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Most experts, however, believe the Clinton turnout machine will be the great equalizer and that talk of a "silent majority" for Trump is fantasy.
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History time: President Richard Nixon used the term "great silent majority" when he appealed for calm in the face of nationwide protests during Vietnam.
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To his fans, Mr. Scholz is a voice of calm and confidence, a pragmatist from Germany's taciturn north who represents the elusive silent majority.
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Again, this is exactly the situation -- it's far too extreme on both sides and the silent majority of America does not have a voice.
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That kind of Palestinian movement would make Israelis feel strategically secure but morally insecure, which is the key to moving the Israeli silent majority.
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For far too long, Big tech has gotten away with censoring the silent majority because of WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE BELIEVE IN!
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Against a backdrop of deadly militant attacks on home soil and Europe's migrant crisis, Sarkozy, 61, styles himself as the voice of France's "silent majority".
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Mr Macron needs to persuade the silent majority that, far from destroying public services, his growth-boosting reforms are the best way to save them.
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And sometimes a silent majority is too silent for its own good… The question is whether evangelicals will be on the right side of Jesus.
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If Trump has tapped into a silent majority, it's those voters — the opposite of Paul Ryan voters, the opposite of Rubio, the opposite of Jeb.
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I made a mental note to have him back, and then in the next segment, he joined the silent majority right there on the stage.
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What started, a year ago, as an occasional borrowing of Nixonian phrases — like describing Trump voters as a "silent majority" — has turned into a homage.
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Long Island's Silent Majority played a massive role in influencing more commercially successful bands like The Movielife and GlassJAw, both in vocal stylings and musically.
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The initiative was called the Project to Restore America, a dog-whistle appeal to the so-called silent majority that foreshadowed Trump's own campaign slogan.
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But though Trumpniks are certainly the demographic descendants of Nixon's white working-class silent majority, the basic reality is that they are anything but silent.
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Maybe I'm just one of the losers—the silent majority who lower their heads and work and have a family and stay out of trouble.
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The government has regularly claimed that protest support is waning, and that a silent majority of Hong Kongers are sick and tired of the violence.
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Whatever their former appellation — Reagan Democrats, the silent majority, the Southern strategy — Joe Sixpack and Archie Bunker are now solidly in the billionaire businessman's corner.
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"They're forgetting about what they call the silent majority," said Philip Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun rights group.
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Unlike other politicians, he was willing to say and do anything to persuade the old silent majority coalition that he was the man for the job.
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With Madrid now planning to suspend Catalonia's autonomy, others said they wanted to show support for the "silent majority" of Catalans who prefer a united Spain.
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Just as U.S. President Donald Trump offered a nod to the "silent majority" for his unexpected victory of 2016, Morrison credited "quiet Australians" for his success.
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There is a certain kind of candy we've been taught to hate, even though most of us — the silent majority — desire it deeply in our bones.
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This means there is little space to discuss the issues faced by the silent majority of trans masculine people who don't conform to this narrow ideal.
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And if there really is a "silent majority" vote out there for Trump, that may be just enough to get him over the hump to 270.
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With Madrid now planning to suspend Catalonia's autonomy, others said they wanted to show support for the "silent majority" of Catalans who prefer a united Spain.
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Four years later, Reagan repeated the Goldwater and Nixon formula, rechristening the "forgotten American" and "silent majority" as the "moral majority," and won in a landslide.
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Early GlassJAw was especially impacted by the band, which makes sense as frontman Daryl Palumbo occasionally played in Silent Majority for a short period of time.
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In a 1969 speech, then-President Richard Nixon directly addressed the "silent majority" of Americans who he hoped would support his middle path policy on Vietnam.
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Sunday's demonstration in Barcelona was organized by the anti-independence group Catalan Civil Society to mobilize what it believes is a "silent majority" that opposes independence.
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When officials try to peddle the idea that a silent majority in Hong Kong loves China, their efforts strike many people in the territory as laughable.
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This Trump rally, as silly and too soon as it may seem to many, sure looks like it's more like the shrewd "silent majority" variety right now.
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The populist dimensions of his candidacy suggest that linkages to popular support and invocations of the silent majority will continue to be part of the rhetorical strategy.
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That is so clear to see with situations like the refugee crisis, in which the silent majority proves that Danes are, in fact, tolerant and humane people.
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By pulling out of the Paris agreement and propping up coal, he is posing an immediate health risk to the silent majority he claims to speak for.
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And especially if the Democrats become more liberal on social/identity issues, Republicans can convince themselves that the silent majority really has to be on their side.
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He told at least two owners that he represented a silent majority inside the membership, giving voice to a building frustration among owners over the commissioner's leadership.
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Nixon's presidency itself descended into oblivion, but his silent majority of hard hats and conformists carried forward, dominating American politics for the rest of the 20th century.
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Moreover, there's little reason to believe the silent majority of Americans are just waiting to be won over by one or the other party embracing milquetoast centrism.
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Robert Chow, a former journalist who leads the group Silent Majority, said Mr. Ho gave voice to those too afraid to openly express their love for China.
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Buchanan's political calculus is that the "silent majority" is larger than the "fashionable minorities," who include violent antiwar protesters — nearly five bombings a day in 1971-72!
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The Muslim-majority nation has drifted in a conservative direction, but one Aceh politician says that "a silent majority" thinks the local government has gone too far.
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By staying away from the polling booths, Lebanon's silent majority sent a clear message to the political class: a cosmetic change in election law is not enough.
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Jesse Catir, a 20-year-old GWU student who voted for Clinton, attributed Trump's win to a "silent majority" of voters too afraid to publicly back him.
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Residents of Spain's wealthiest region, Catalonia, who want to remain Spanish and oppose the idea of an independent Catalan nation have long been called the silent majority.
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To Americans who viewed Trump primarily in the context of televised rallies, the idea of his laying claim to a "silent" majority seemed to border on the absurd.
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" That day he also gave a speech in which he said it was time to "stop this dictatorship of minorities that ruins the life of the silent majority.
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But Sanders's most hotly disputed idea is his belief that a silent majority of Americans is out there waiting to be mobilized around his very liberal economic agenda.
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I believe the silent majority in Britain want Parliament to "get on with it," and then focus on all the other issues stacking up in ministers' in-trays.
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Nicknamed the "Mother of All Rallies," the pro-Trump rally is billing itself as the "Woodstock for the silent majority" and will begin at noon on the Mall.
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"It's far two extremes on both sides and the silent majority of America does not have a voice, and that's the voice I want to give," he said.
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In every crowd, there were supporters who echoed Mr. Trump's message that the polls did not reflect the "silent majority" who they said would turn out on Nov.
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" Clinton counting on quiet supporters to speak with their ballots On the trail, signs at rallies for the Republican showman declare that "the Silent Majority stands with Trump.
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Instead, he turned his attention to the "silent majority" represented by the stock traders who stood in the background of CNBC's live coverage, cheering his Tea Party oration.
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Nixon wanted his "silent majority" — another one of Trump's favorite phrases, meaning middle-class, center-right white folks — to find solace in the prospect of stronger law enforcement.
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To the people Agnew and president Richard Nixon were seeking to reach, to the purported "Silent Majority" of Americans who felt increasingly alienated, this only served to humanize him.
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But there is also the silent majority that might pretend to like folk music but secretly hate it, associating it with forced sing-alongs at summer camp and church.
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I'm just making a plea to this country to stand up as a silent majority and show you're support for these people to keep them encouraged... to protect you.
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"I want to be the spokesman of the silent majority which today says 'enough is enough'," Sarkozy tweeted after his speech to 3,000 supporters on the outskirts of Lyon.
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"She's an extremely liberated woman," Ms. DeCrow said in an interview with Carol Felsenthal for her book "The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography of Phyllis Schlafly" (19923).
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Since the inception of the term silent majority almost 28503 years ago, and all of its iterations since, this block of voters was hardly a majority and never silent.
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The video also points to a "silent majority" of Americans who the association says support police, but it says officers are "vilified" by the public and the news media.
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And it's about time we acknowledge them and their emergence as a new silent majority that reelected America's first black president and is poised to elect its first woman.
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Forty-four years later, America is facing another silent majority election — one in which the story has been all about Trump's supporters but the victory will go to Clinton's.
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The greatest difference between the new silent majority and Trump's noisy minority is that Clinton's majority is a coalition of minorities, and it is self-aware about that fact.
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"We can do something with that if we can just realize that this silent majority exists, and that it crosses political and ideological and other demographic bounds," Rose said.
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"I believe there is a huge, silent majority out there, who are shaking their heads 'yes' at what Republicans are doing right now," Mr. Thayer said in an interview.
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On the other side of the spectrum, Richard M. Nixon appealed to the "silent majority," while Ronald Reagan was boosted by aggrieved working-class Americans who abandoned the Democrats.
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"The silent majority is more of a metaphor than a real group of people," Samson Yuen, an assistant politics professor at Lingnan University, told the Atlantic, following the election.
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"The silent majority is more of a metaphor than a real group of people," Samson Yuen, an assistant politics professor at Lingnan University, told the Atlantic following the election.
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During his winning campaign, Trump borrowed from Nixon the term "silent majority," which was used by the Republican ticket to refer to Americans who quietly supported their agenda in 1967.
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A complicated history A key read of late is "Black Silent Majority," Michael Fortner's study of the role of concerned black leaders and thinkers in founding the war on drugs.
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"There was some hope that the disaffected, so-called silent majority would be broad enough and turn out in large enough numbers to give Trump a chance," said the lawmaker.
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Though the lack of plume had been mentioned in the past, nobody had properly galvanized the silent majority, those in search of a proper helmet plume for their beloved Ornstein.
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Clinton's silent majority is at times caricatured by her critics on the left as complacent, but a better characterization of the predominant view would be that Clinton voters feel precarious.
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His supporters often point to the unusually large size of the crowds he attracts to his rallies as evidence that a silent majority out there stands in support of him.
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Ahead of the elections, Beijing was claiming the vote would allow a silent majority to voice their dissatisfaction with the increasingly violent protest movement, which recently entered its sixth month.
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Irwan Johan, a vice speaker for the Acehnese Provincial Legislature, said any real debate over Shariah was impossible, even though "a silent majority" thinks the government has gone too far.
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" Not unless a righteous sense of persecution is afoot — in which case you get upswells like the Moral Majority and the Silent Majority, blurring the line between "majority" and "supremacy.
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Wauquiez, a graduate of France's elite schools and a former minister under ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, says he is the voice of the "silent majority" and his critics have misunderstood him.
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The result drew comparisons with Republican Trump's victory in 2016, when the real estate mogul defied polls to defeat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by winning over the so-called silent majority.
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It's unclear how many people are actually in the "silent majority," or if they really are a majority at all, but the group appears to be slowly growing -- publicly at least.
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In 1968, Richard Nixon dusted off Bernstein's "forgotten man" speech and made it the template for his appeal to the "silent majority," as Garry Wills reported in his classic Nixon Agonistes.
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It is up to the Silent Majority — the same majority that handed Trump the White House — to step up, fill in the gap, and teach the protestors an important civics lesson.
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Thomas B. Edsall Between Richard Nixon's election by the silent majority in 1968 and Donald Trump's stunning victory in 2016, there have been six conservative waves that swept Republicans into office.
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This was part of a wider national strategy of recruiting members of the "great silent majority", alienated by those "limousine liberals" who were soft on crime and friendly with foreign powers.
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The results undermined Beijing's narrative that the protests represented fringe opinions, and that there was a silent majority in Hong Kong that approved of mainland China's increasing influence over the territory.
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But the myth of a Teflon Trump is dead, along with the bizarre notion that 45 percent or so of the public constitutes a "silent majority" that craves incompetence and white nationalism.
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" A few readers said moderate Republicans have some good choices this primary season, but the media have ignored the sensible conservatives that should attract those Mr. Brooks described as the "silent majority.
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But he is equally adamant that most French citizens of Muslim heritage eschew both these ideologies, and he implies the state should intervene to assert the interests of this relatively silent majority.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Europe's migration problems will be the top voter concern in European Union elections next May, drawing out a silent majority of anti-immigration voters, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said.
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The broad base is right-wing populism, in all its post-World War II varietals: Orange County Cold Warriors, "Silent Majority" hard hats, Southern evangelicals, Reagan Democrats, the Tea Party, the Trumpistas.
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Like "the silent majority," another Nixonian throwback that Trump recycles from time to time, "law and order" conveyed which side you were on in the political and cultural wars of that era.
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He does not represent the "silent majority" that turned the 2016 election -- a cohort that, as much as anything else, was joined by its uniform disdain for the political and cultural establishment.
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Though a "silent majority" appreciated the work of Brittain and others, he was hounded by a subset of fanatics who'd scrolled through everything he'd ever said about localization and taken screen shots.
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Made up of ex-members of Edsel, Obits, Silent Majority, Nation of Ulysses, Holy Fuck, and The Cops, Brooklyn's most discontented dads don't play emo but opt for wiry garage art-punk.
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After witnessing the town hall in person and hearing the cheers of the thousands of people who lined the streets outside, it is clear that the silent majority is silent no more.
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The results signaled broad discontent with the territory's Beijing-aligned leaders and undermined a Communist Party narrative that a silent majority in Hong Kong opposed the protests but dared not speak out.
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Like the silent majority of other middling or poor urban dwellers in expensive cities, we are residents of tiny homes not by design, but because it is all our money can rent.
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Others are more spur of the moment: The guest for the recent "The Silent Majority Is Back" episode was booked after video of him protesting the cancellation of a gun show went viral.
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"Democrats had no problem rigging their primary against Bernie Sanders and his supporters," the email continues, "and now they're choosing to strip the Silent Majority of their new-found voice in our country."
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He also blames city power-brokers for intimidating the silent majority that he feels backed his cause, notably the city newspaper, the Times-News, which he says falsely portrayed his campaign as "bigoted".
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Just as we have moral obligations to protect our children and our families, as stewards of this planet we are morally obligated to protect the silent majority of biodiversity that shares our home.
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That is the true silent majority—those in the middle, not on the extreme right or left, those average Janes and Joes trying to figure it the fuck out, make the right call.
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Richard M. Nixon appealed to the "silent majority," and Bill Clinton castigated an African-American rap star named Sister Souljah to reach out to disaffected white voters who had fled the Democratic Party.
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A lot of conservatives — not so much political professionals who spend their time studying the numbers, but rank-and-file Republicans and voters — really seemed to believe that they are a silent majority.
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Many of the women, smartly turned out, waved "Women for Trump" banners, which had been stacked outside the banquet room door, along with ones proclaiming "Hispanics for Trump" and "Silent Majority Stands with Trump".
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Mr Trump was open about his plans, telling The Economist in interviews that he planned to appeal to a "silent majority" of "hard-working, great people in the United States that have been disenfranchised".
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"Despite his prior glitzy image, Trump started becoming a demagogue when he started trying to lead a 'silent majority' of furious, mostly white, lower- and middle-class voters," Signer told CNN in December 2015.
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The result is a skewed portrait of the American electorate, one in which Trump's supporters' preferences and beliefs are constantly fretted over and in which his detractors remain comparatively anonymous—a true silent majority.
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" Richard M. Nixon appealed to the "silent majority" and the "hard hats," while his vice president, Spiro T. Agnew, issued slashing attacks on an "effete core of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
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"Like the silent majority of other middling or poor urban dwellers in expensive cities, we are residents of tiny homes not by design, but because it is all our money can rent," she wrote.
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On Sunday night, after the march, he called on Ms. Lam in a Facebook post to shelve the extradition bill now that the "silent majority" of Hong Kong had come out marching against it.
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We saw the strength of that silent majority as lifelong Democrats joined Republicans in places like Luzern, Schuylkill, and Carbon counties, united in their shared belief that career politicians failed to truly represent them.
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It is this potential "silent majority" that Beijing is hoping to connect with as part of a new tactic experts say is intended to discredit anti-government protesters and bolster support for mainland China.
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I'm using this to refer to a silent majority that isn't a majority and is not particularly silent: whites, generally older, generally less educated, although of course with exemptions for all of those generalizations.
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If you don't look at it, it multiplies, and nobody discusses it, and that's how you wind up with this silent majority supporting Donald Trump or people whose children kill themselves for being picked on.
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But "identities" held primarily by white and Christian Americans have been politicized for decades, from the Silent Majority of the Nixon presidency to the "NASCAR dads" Democrats sought to recruit during the 2004 presidential election.
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Rajoy, who called the elections after sacking the previous secessionist government, had hoped Catalonia's "silent majority" would deal separatism a decisive blow in what was a de facto independence referendum, but his hard line backfired.
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Campaigners like me need to get better at engaging the silent majority who deplore the incitement of hatred, but who may have real concerns about immigration, security or the pace of change in their communities.
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The Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 after four decades was the first shot but the American silent majority awoke much later in 2009 and 85033 and in a manner that will not be silenced.
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The origins lie in the bitter social and cultural conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s and were evident in the movement of the "silent majority," Reagan Democrats and "angry white men" to the Republican column.
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This group has made political waves before, filling the ranks of Richard Nixon's "silent majority" and serving as Ross Perot's base in 1992 and Pat Buchanan's during his failed presidential campaigns in '92 and '96.
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One crucial example of that played out in the spring of 1970 when a group of "silent majority" construction workers stopped being so silent and eventually even physically attacked anti-Vietnam War protesters in Lower Manhattan.
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Drafting off of Wallace and unrest in the country with more discreet, coded words, former Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, promised "the silent majority" that he would restore "law and order" on America's streets.
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"America first" was the rallying cry of isolationists before World War II. Most apt of all was his occasional reference to his base as the "silent majority," a phrase first popularized by Richard Nixon in 0003.
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" She continued: "I consider myself a part of the silent majority that led to Trump's rise, which is why I want you to know that I am with you — I wanted Trump to be real, too.
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In an interview on Monday, Shaich spoke of a "silent majority" of Americans who do not align with "extreme views" on either side of the political spectrum and said he wanted to listen to their concerns.
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But perhaps most importantly and controversially of all, it's a bet — a bet that the establishment's conventional wisdom is wrong, and that a silent majority in America can be convinced to support the policies of Bernie Sanders.
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Richard Nixon came roaring into the 1968 and 1972 campaigns with promises that he could end the war in Vietnam and maintain law and order in a country where the "Silent Majority" had been ignored by liberals.
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At the Trump rally in Myrtle Beach, where signs that read "silent majority" dotted the crowd, Patricia Saunders told CNN that Trump is speaking directly to a segment of the population that feels left behind and marginalized.
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Many in Pantsuit Nation have started referring to themselves as the "silent majority," a term popularized by President Nixon to describe Middle Americans that didn't receive the media attention the counter-culture forces of the time did.
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For this reason, look for President Trump to begin to tone down his rhetoric, thereby positioning Republicans to win the "silent majority" who are fed up with the rage and unending protestations of those on the left.
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He has reconvened the largely passive "silent majority" — the Reagan Democrats and the angry white men of past elections — and turned it into a renegade force that has rebelled against its marginal status in the Republican coalition.
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In this way, the "culture wars" of the 1970s and 1980s pitted progressives, who wielded individual rights arguments, against traditionalists — the "silent majority" or "Moral Majority" — who countered that rights should be limited to protect community morality.
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That period was far more violent but culminated in a landslide victory for Richard Nixon in 1972, after he famously appealed to the "silent majority," who he believed resented what they saw as disrespect for American institutions.
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In Sanders's view, there's something akin to a populist silent majority lurking in America — a majority that already agrees with liberals but that's been alienated by Democrats who give in to wealthy interests and compromise their principles.
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Richard Nixon, the last president to evince so little respect for constitutional norms, was also a "law and order" candidate who promised to represent a silent majority frustrated by rapid racial advancement and unnerved by black anger.
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Hundreds of thousands of supporters of a unified Spain marched on Sunday in one of the biggest shows of force yet by the so-called silent majority that has watched as regional political leaders push for Catalan independence.
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It was Meany who coined the phrase "silent majority" to refer to working-class whites without a college education who felt alienated by anti-establishment disruption and progressive moralizing—and who would be crucial to Nixon's political victories.
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Pro-Spain candidates including Rajoy's People's Party (PP), the Socialists and market-friendly Ciudadanos were out canvassing on Saturday with modest rallies in the region calling for the so-called silent majority to vote en masse in December.
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Trump's recent defense of Sanders's accusations of unfairness are based less on reality, and more on pandering to Sanders's supporters in the hope of corralling them into the so-called "silent majority" that will support Trump in November.
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The Jones campaign's theory seems to be that instead of disaffected white workers forming a Nixonian silent majority, as sometimes happens elsewhere, there may be a silent but large-ish minority of soccer moms seething against Mr. Moore.
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Referring to themselves as "the silent majority" on the MAGA March website, which has since been taken down, they said they found themselves feeling increasingly marginalized and forgotten in what they called the agenda of the elite left.
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During a low point early in his first term in office, President Richard Nixon called on the great "silent majority" of the nation to be silent no more and show public support for him and his Vietnam War policies.
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While 90 percent of voters in the referendum backed a breakaway, recent polling suggests a silent majority of Spanish unionists simply didn't take part with 49 percent preferring to stay united with Spain compared with 41 percent wanting independence.
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Nixon was the avatar of the "silent majority" of resentful whites, but he didn't make it a pet phrase until he was already in the White House, and it wasn't the main thing that got him elected or reelected.
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Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign used code words and phrases like "law and order" and "the silent majority" to refer to the policing of communities of color and the white anti-integration movement respectively (terms that Trump resurrected in 2016).
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In 1968, at the height of the controversy over the Vietnam War and hippie counterculture, the NFL positioned itself on the same side as Nixon's "silent majority" — that is, in favor of the war effort and against mass protests.
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In my own work as an educator for more than 22 years I have employed the approach of the MVP program with an acute understanding of the locker room environment that relies on the silent majority to perpetuate a toxic environment.
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Grenell denied in a tweet on Sunday that he sought to take a political stand with his comments, but stopped short of fully retracting them, saying that Trump had led an "awakening from the silent majority" in the U.S. and Europe.
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But on July 7, with helicopters circling and sirens blaring around my neighborhood, with dead police officers less than a mile away, there was just one very clear thing on my list: Do not become part of anyone's silent majority.
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In 1972, Nixon's silent majority, grounded firmly in the white working class, delivered a smashing victory for the GOP, dashing the hopes of George McGovern supporters that a new coalition of young white professionals and racial minorities could upend American politics.
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In the biggest pro-unity demonstration since the constitutional crisis began, a crowd estimated by police to number 350,000 waved Spanish and Catalan flags and chanted "Here is the silent majority," a direct rebuttal to the regional government's push for secession.
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According to the government, the protests have lost public support and a silent majority of Hong Kongers are sick and tired of the violence and chaos, and they stand behind the police in doing everything necessary to stop the unrest.
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El Mundo newspaper reported 65,000 turned out on Thursday, at least 10 times more than on last year's national holiday, but only a fifth of the crowd that turned out to oppose independence last weekend, calling themselves the "silent majority".
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In Trump's speech, historians said, there were echoes of Franklin D. Roosevelt with Trump mentioning "the forgotten" Americans left behind by the forces of trade and globalization, of Richard Nixon's "silent majority", and of Ronald Reagan's pledge to restore the nation's greatness.
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To connect with his "silent majority," Trump avoids the soaring campaign poetry of Obama, the eye-glazing wonkery of a Jeb Bush or Democratic national front-runner Hillary Clinton, or the gassy lingo of a candidate baked in the conventions of Capitol Hill.
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But while Bunker, portrayed by Carroll O'Connor, has become a more familiar sight on Facebook these past few years, the initial conservative reaction to and appropriation of Bunker on behalf of a "silent majority" remains largely forgotten in the annals of television history.
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They earn their own money or benefit from independent think tanks or patrons, and they write about local or specific subjects: migrant workers, victims of the Mao era, targets of religious persecution, dispossessed farmers — "the silent majority," according to the novelist Wang Xiaobo.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of supporters of a unified Spain filled Barcelona's streets on Sunday in one of the biggest shows of force yet by the so-called silent majority that has watched as regional political leaders push for Catalan independence.
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China's central government "hopes Hong Kong compatriots can clearly oppose Hong Kong independence, jointly safeguard Hong Kong's social and political stability" and "amass popular sentiment to seek development and promote harmony", Zhang told a delegation from a group called Silent Majority for Hong Kong.
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Not Ms. Tomes, a professor of history at Stony Brook University, who has chosen to examine instead the health care experience of average healthy citizens, the great silent majority whose lives are punctuated by a variety of minor ills and only the occasional major calamity.
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"If you look throughout the heartland, there's a silent majority who just wants normalcy, just wants to see that people are going to go out to Washington and fight for them in a civil way and get something done," said Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos.
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" Hand-dyer and knitter Maria Tusken, who is white, posted a video on YouTube saying she spoke for the "silent majority" of knitters who didn't think racism was a problem, that people were being "hostile ... all in the name of this social justice issue.
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HONG KONG — In the run-up to local elections in Hong Kong on Sunday, Beijing and its allies in the city were portraying the vote as a way to hear the voice of a silent majority after nearly six months of increasingly violent antigovernment protests.
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For this silent majority of hundreds of millions of people, the government's newfound support for things like the temple to Lord Guan is welcome — a feeling that the Chinese Communist Party hopes will bolster its legitimacy, especially given the irrelevance today of its founding ideas.
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President Donald Trump won his campaign, in part, on the promise of bringing hope back to "the silent majority," a large swath of mainly white working-class Americans who feel they have been left behind by trade policies like NAFTA and have watched their manufacturing jobs disappear.
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President Ivanov, who comes from the opposing Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization—Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE), said on Monday that the government should not go ahead with the change, the low turnout being a sign from "the silent majority" whose views were "underestimated".
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It is a reactionary category put forth memorably by Richard Nixon in a 85033 speech against Vietnam War protests, which sought to separate protesters from "the great silent majority of my fellow Americans" who Nixon said agreed with him that we should stay in the war.
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"There's a perception that Hong Kong businesspeople are not sympathetic to the protests, but look at the silent majority that spoke in large peaceful marches or in the district council elections," said Todd Darling, an American restaurateur who has lived in Hong Kong for 16 years.
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If the Chinese leadership under Xi Jinping had thought that there was a silent majority opposed to the disruptive protests, the turnout and result made clear that a vast majority of Hong Kongers treasure their relative freedoms and have no intention of letting Beijing whittle them away.
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The top story about Yovanovitch was by the New York Post, titled "Marie Yovanovitch Admits Obama Admin Prepped Her On Hunter Biden" (141,100 engagements), which was shared 15,000 times from the Texas for Donald Trump 2020 Facebook page and 10,0003 times from the Silent Majority page.
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The election results appeared to come as a surprise to Beijing, which, together with its allies in the city, had portrayed the vote as a way for a silent majority in Hong Kong to "end social chaos and violence" by signaling their unhappiness with the protest movement.
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This map places him at exactly 270, without a single electoral vote to spare: If there's a 'silent majority' of working-class whites This is Trump's dream scenario, because it cracks Clinton's blue wall of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania -- which he hasn't been able to win in polls.
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Sarkozy, trailing rival Alain Juppe in opinion polls as they campaign for conservative party backing in the presidential election six months from now, has sought to present himself as the voice of a silent majority in a formally secular country where the majority are of nonetheless of Catholic origin.
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HuffPost reported multiple drivers declined to give rides to far-right activists attending the "We the People Rally," which aimed at gathering members of the "silent majority" who wanted to take a stand to show people what "patriotism really is," according to a Facebook page for the event.
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But many of them might have been secretly excited to discover a man running a presidential campaign based on their basest thoughts, to hear an invitation to join his rollicking, vitriolic party of "we," to become a "longtime listener, first-time caller" on Trumpism's silent-majority radio show.
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Clinton's silent majority values competence and experience, and recognizes that it's no coincidence the first plausible woman president had to be the most well-qualified candidate in generations and equally un-coincidental that in the hands of her enemies her great asset has been relabeled as a weakness.
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The zealous defense of ideas for which audiences believe they're seen as stupid, cruel or racist is made possible with simple inversion: Actually, it's everyone else who is stupid, cruel or racist, and their "consensus" is a conspiracy intended to conceal the unspoken feelings of a silent majority.
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Cleveland (CNN)The "Silent Majority" Donald Trump has inspired and rallied throughout his campaign congregated in a riverfront park here Monday -- a hodgepodge of supporters who, while unlikely to step foot inside the convention hall less than a mile away, nevertheless counted themselves among the real estate mogul's most fervent backers.
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But ability to perform anger without coming across as the wrong kind of person is still a privilege in the 21st-century United States, and the new silent majority values other forms of representation that a woman can bring to the table over the performance of rage that her rivals bring.
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While liberals are hopeful about a blue wave this November, the women here had a different message: Republicans are energized this year, too — by a growing economy, a president they believe in, and a belief that a "silent majority" of Trump supporters will again shock the political world this fall.
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"Members of the silent majority don't support the extradition bill, but nonetheless they want life to return to normal," said Willy Lam, an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a longtime analyst of Chinese politics, in reference to the now shelved bill that sparked that initial protests.
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The reason for the choice here, if you're familiar with the film, is obvious: it follows the rising popularity of a guitar-playing hayseed inmate nicknamed Lonesome Rhodes as he moves from radio to television to eventually coaching presidential candidates how to appeal to the silent majority, and coming close to running for office himself.
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There was, indeed, a "silent majority" — an angry, full-frontal demographic assault of white working-class voters, along with dispossessed college-educated whites still reeling from 401(k) losses, foreclosures and mounting student loan debt who felt like the black president may have been a "likable" guy but wasn't doing a damn thing for them.
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Amidst the grief for those dead and injured, the chaos and the great weight of the unknown, the faith that the police would identify and defuse the bombs reported to be all over downtown, a chant rocked back and forth in my brain all night: Do not let Dallas legitimate the next silent majority.
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The advocates' calculation was that if this was going to be the outcome, it would be better for it to happen quickly and decisively, in time for the 1992 presidential election to become a referendum on the right to abortion and to awaken what polls showed to be a large silent majority favoring abortion rights.
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The benefits of the New Deal and the years of government-aided, post-war growth had been met with malaise in the 1970s, providing fertile ground for the merger of market/monetarist economics with the dog-whistle politics of the then, so-called, "silent majority," whose offspring we are well acquainted with in the polity of today.
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After years of being used and abused, the Silent Majority they muzzled is rising up and its voice is Republican nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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The tune, told from the point of view of a straight-arrow Oklahoman who praises it as a place "where even squares can have a ball" and disparages the "hippies out in San Francisco," was immediately adopted by what became known as the "silent majority," conservative middle Americans who wondered what was going on in an America out of control.
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Yet the Clinton voter has not made the same kind of impression on the media, in part because the new silent majority voter offers less visible evidence of being fired up and the new silent majority's signature politicians — Clinton and Obama — do not do grand performance of anger, even at a time when rage is all the rage in American politics.
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Read More from Vox: There's a new "silent majority," and it's voting for Hillary ClintonThe polls are split between Hillary Clinton winning and … Hillary Clinton winning in a landslideMalik Obama: Donald Trump's debate guest and Barack's half-brother, explained The failure to articulate a clear message about Iraq and Syria isn't just a political problem for Clinton and Trump as they prepare for Sunday night's debate.
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For years now conservative critics and sociologists and intellectuals have been acknowledging that the answers might be no — that the country's once-rich associational and civic and religious life is declining and dissolving, that corporate America embraces conservative slogans to keep taxes low and unions weak but otherwise seems post-patriotic and performatively woke, that the "silent majority" of hardworking, pious, culturally conservative blue-collar families is now essentially defunct.
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Pollsters are debating whether Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's "silent majority" of voters exists, and are scrambling to make sure that their surveys reflect the opinions of voters who might not ordinarily be included in opinion polls.
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To Republican strategists generally, and to Karl Rove, chief strategist for President George W. Bush's re-election campaign, in particular, the very thought of gay marriage wending its way from such Gomorrah-like settings as Cambridge, Massachusetts, and San Francisco to a church near you provided a path not just to boost evangelical turnout in November's election, but also to convince that great silent majority, on whom Republican candidates relied, that Democrats and liberals threatened the moral fabric of the nation.
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