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montana_hazeleyes

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20. I agree with you.

Reply to Charles Bukowski (Reply #9)

Thu Feb 16, 2017, 01:28 AM

Feb 2017

I have said it over and over and always get shot down about it, but, the way 45 got the ball rolling in his campaign was the racist, hateful bigotry. And his targets were brown or black and his cult of rabid supporters loved that.

Now, other things were a part of this too, of course, but in my opinion the main attraction was his blatant bigotry.

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