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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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4. I agree more with earlier you.

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 08:55 AM

Mar 2016

The Republican Party relies on the covert mobilization of racial resentment and nationalism. Trump, as I saw it, was bringing into the open that which had been intentionally submerged.

As such, he is not an 'unprecedented' threat. He is merely the open embodiment of the Republican base as they've always been, and the "Democrats" who pretend that they aren't really Republicans at heart. He's thrown off his white hood and is openly preaching the hate speech they've kept behind closed doors and curtains.

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