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No, that is the fairy tale that people on the left tell themselves so that they can feel morally superior.
IMMIGRATION

It was the inspiration for many on the right. Remember ... I am going to build a beautiful wall so tall and so great it will keep out all those uncleans who are rapists etc etc. It is a metaphor, a dog whistle, code for large scale public bigotry. I know I know ... people on the right just don't get it. They "know" they are not bigots, why hell they all have black friends.

I live in a suburban/rural community and am awash with Trump supporters. 100% bigots. It is not a matter of moral superiority or any superiority ... it is just a fact.

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Trump didn't get elected Because Yay Racism ... he was less-awful than Hillary
First, how can you say Sec Clinton was more awful than the puzzygrabbing, huckster, bigot, and unethical businessman? Sec Clinton was once again cleared of wrongdoing by the DoJ. Mr Trump has been and continues to be under a cloud of criminal investigations, and his voters don't care. That is the primary difference. He is their voice and they don't care if he is corrupt. And he is certainly far more corrupt than Sec Clinton has ever been characterized.

Second and more importantly, Mr Trump's Base, THE BASE, of the Republican party is probably about 75% heavily influenced by their bigotry. They Democrats for several reason, and one of the primary ones is Democrats help blacks. The reason elected Republicans fear Mr Trump is because he is the voice of THE BASE, and that voice is the sound of bigotry. If you are disloyal to Mr Trump you will get the wrath of THE BASE. I am surrounded by his base.

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There are a couple of key drivers of that, and one of them is definitely that the charge of racism was laughingly dismissed where it wasn't considered a badge of honor because they saw that the left liked to claim that anything the left didn't like was racist
This is a favorite meme of the right. But if you analyze the facts Democrats do not call people who are not racists racists. The problem is the right does not understand what it means to be racist. In their mind, and I will be exaggerating for effect, they believe a person is racist who thinks they should own black people. Thus precluding everything which defines bigotry as bigotry. Hence they are not bigot and Democrats only use the term as verbal assault when not true.

We have a local talk show host who uses the Chicago crime report as a basis for characterizing blacks as predisposed for violence and then claim that is not racist, but tough love. Really!!!! You may see it the same way, but I guarantee you, that is as racist as it sounds. White people are better than blacks because they are not shooting each other ... make sense?


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