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Old 08-20-2015, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by barbara View Post
I'm sure you are right about them holding that view long before they heard it from Trump. But, hearing it from a presidential candidate legitimizes it..... In a sense, giving them permission to take action.
^^This^^

Trump makes the racists feel a sense of empowerment and liberation. It isn't just Trump, of course, but he's the one currently out in front on this racially based nativism.
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