In contrast, the mood in postelection Berkeley, California, was gloomy. Worried talk turned to Trump’s impulsive leadership, his attacks on newspapers and on judges who didn’t agree with him. How, folks in Berkeley asked, could the patriotic right overlook Russian meddling in an American election? How could the Christian right vote for a man who boasts of groping women? But in Louisiana, his joyous supporters were asking: how could liberals worry about Trump’s sexual wandering and not remember Bill Clinton’s? Why had the mainstream press turned against a man who promises to improve the
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