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rube

noun as in hick

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They were just campaign slogans to appeal to the rubes.

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Such voices tend to believe that anyone who would trust Trump’s promises of free money are dumb, dupes, rubes and/or easy marks.

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Speaking from the White House, Trump said that the U.S. had been playing the rube in unbalanced deals with its biggest trading partners.

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Come for the Rube Goldberg machines, leave feeling like a rube.

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As the campaign wore on and tightened up after Joe Biden dropped out, Trump was forced to make some "populist" gestures for the rubes.

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