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Why the Greens Lost and Trump Won

When President Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accords, embraced coal, and stacked his administration from people from fossil-fuel producing states, the environmental movement reacted with near-apocalyptic fear and fury.
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As its economy bounced back from the Great Recession, California emerged as a progressive role model, yet the state's once remarkably varied and vital economy has become dangerously dependent on the Bay Area tech boom.
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In its race against rapidly aging Europe and East Asia, America’s relatively vibrant nurseries have provided some welcome demographic dynamism. Yet, in recent years, notably since the Great Recession and the weak recovery that followed, America’s birthrate has continued to drop, and is now at a record low.
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