Perry Bacon Jr. is a Washington Post columnist. Before joining The Post, Bacon had stints as a government and elections writer for Time magazine, The Post's national desk, theGrio and FiveThirtyEight. He has also been an on-air analyst at MSNBC and a fellow at New America. He grew up in Louisville and lives there now.

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