Trump's racism is ethno-nationalist, rooted not just in skin color but the foul idea that white Christians are "more American" than others.
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The U.S. is for Europeans, to be taken back from anyone who isn't. (The White Homeland view is why his wife doesn't 'count' as an immigrant)
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Trump voicing overt bias may mean that the
@DixieForTrump &@GodBlessRELee's of the world may never go back to silently supporting the GOP.1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes -
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Meanwhile, establishment outlets like Nat'l Review attack poor whites with language previously reserved for blackshttp://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/why_conservatives_are_talking_about_poor_white_people_the_way_they_usually.html# …
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So Trump supporters hate the GOP who hate them right back, and the press is willing to call out bias in plain language. What happens next?
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The likeliest outcome after 2016 is that the GOP returns to preying on people's prejudices, and the press to studied neutrality...
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...after Trump "has made white Americans more comfortable with their bigotry", as
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...leaving ethno-nationalism as a pernicious public force, as
@zeynep fears. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/opinion/campaign-stops/adventures-in-the-trump-twittersphere.html?_r=0 …2 replies 5 retweets 11 likes
@cshirky Emerging as a group doesn't just uncover latent ideology, under right conditions. Real threat given global elite failure.
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