Subject: Wonkbook: Five things Donald Trump has taught us about America
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Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Carmel, Ind., on Monday. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)
By Jim Tankersley
Donald Trump's victory is a mirror on America. It shows us something about ourselves as a country. Not everyone, certainly. He has won a minority share of the votes of the nation's minority political party. But that was enough votes to effectively secure the Republican nomination for president, and more than enough to reveal truths about large swaths of Americans that were not so apparent a year ago.
Some of the lessons are specific to Trump's coalition, which, at the moment, looks badly outnumbered against the Americans who view him unfavorably. Others apply more broadly. They emerge from public opinion polling, from election patterns, from viewing habits.
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Number of the day
21 percent.
That's the share of Trump's supporters who believe that the shootings at Sandy Hook might have been staged. It's one striking result of a recent poll that shows just how little the people his coalition trust anyone. Max Ehrenfreund has more.

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