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I certainly hope that the NYT will do so but history gives me a suspicion that the stories on Trump will be ameliorated by an increase in Cletus Safaris along with a breathless, unsourced story or two on Hunter Biden's business dealings. I've put faith in the NYT before, only to have it dashed.

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What is "Cletus Safaris"?

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Google tells us this: It’s one of those innumerable, insufferable, “Let’s go to Rust Bucket, Ohio and interview the old racist white people who voted for Trump and see what they have to say now” pieces that every major news outlet feels obligated to churn out once per month.

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That's the term describing the work of coastal reporter who think they've found something profound when they find Trump supporters in diners in the Midwest and publish their quotes as "simple wisdom from the Heartland." It's as though the thoughts of millions of American voters who live in cities need to be balanced by the maunderings of embittered racist retirees in Iowa.

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BTW, this easily taken to be a Latin legal term, which it isn't.

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