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Joe the Plumber and His Afterlives
Politics / August 29, 2023 Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who died on Sunday, seemed like a footnote to the 2008 presidential campaign. But he was an augur of things to come. Ad Policy Samuel Wurzelbacher visits Sderot, Israel, in 2009. (Moshe Milner / GPO / Getty) As the Trump movement finds itself facing a fresh round…