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In reply to the discussion: Deep Hate For The Cheap Thug Trump Is The Ground Of This Election, Ladies And Gentlemen [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)Someone once called white evangelicals a minority just large enough to believe itself the majority. The greatest proportion of these people live in none too densely populated places, and do not see many people unlike themselves. They honestly have little conception of the big world outside. They also grossly underrate the capacity of their opponents for anger and hatred and even violence, imagining themselves to be, if not the intellectual masters of their opponents, surely their physical masters. Their final resort is the belief they, and they alone, are 'really' Americans, and so since their opponents are not really Americans at all, they are surely predominant in America, however outnumbered they may be by interlopers who fill the cities and the big towns, and are far from all white Christians....
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