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Michael Tracey

Michael Tracey is a journalist and researcher in New York.

articles/2016/10/02/despite-donald-trump-many-bernie-sanders-supporters-won-t-forgive-hillary-clinton/161001-M-Tracey-Berniacs-hillary-tease_noickp
BLUE CIVIL WAR

Why Berniacs Still Won’t Forgive Hillary

The Sanders campaign exposed long-simmering discord in the Democratic Party coalition, and the fracture, now exposed and widened, can’t be easily fixed or even papered over.

Michael Tracey

articles/2016/09/06/the-mainstream-media-has-a-donald-j-trump-sized-blind-spot/160905-tracey-msm-trump-tease_xc9y2x
OUT-OF-TOUCH

The MSM’s Trump-Sized Blind Spot

Nothing is quite as trite and boring as journalists parachuting in to report on the pathologies of Trump supporters through a phony anthropological prism.

Michael Tracey

articles/2016/04/18/the-man-behind-donald-trump-s-unlikely-rise-wrote-its-playbook-for-al-sharpton/160413-seigel-al-sharpton-tease_raemsp
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

Trump and Sharpton’s Shady Secret Friend

Advise a larger-than-life New Yorker? Check. Disrupt the party establishment? Check. Hijack the primary debates? Check.

Michael Tracey

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