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Trump, The King 👑 Of Racism.
Just yesterday (Sunday), President Trump said that a group of four minority congresswomen feuding with Speaker Nancy Pelosi should “go back” to the nations they came from rather than “loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States” how to run the government. Encased inside the outrage, which was widely established as a racist simile, was a factually fallacious claim: Only one of the congresswomen was born outside the United States.
Though Mr. Trump has regularly refused to back down from stoking racial bigotry, his zest to dispose of a lowest-rung smear — one customarily and coarsely used to single out the perceived foreignness of nonwhite, non-Christian people — was primarily viewed as beyond sickening. The President of the United States has a race problem, and Republicans are some parts of those problems. They are just as sick as the President, himself.
The tropes that were delivered on the day he had assured widespread immigration incursions, Mr. Trump’s judgments flagged a new low in how far he will go to sway public dialogue surrounding the problem. And if his series of tweets was proposed to widen Democratic divisions in an intraparty fight further, the artifice appeared quickly to fail: House…