God Loves the Poorly Educated

John DiFelice
6 min readDec 24, 2020
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On February 24, 2016, during a victory speech after his Nevada caucus win, republican candidate Donald Trump exclaimed that he loved the poorly educated. His critics and political opponents used the statement as evidence of his ineptitude and lack of wisdom. But if you read more of the full quote and put it into the proper context, his statement is consistent with the Republican platform of the last 40 years.

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