Trump’s push to amplify racism - Pt. 2

Could This Be the Beginning of a Trend? #14 Trump’s push to amplify racism - Pt. 2 Racial animus & toxicity 7.7.20 •”... credited Trump with understanding “that there is a constituency — a deep constituency, a solid constituency, a resolute constituency — in the electorate for these views.” •“The Republican Party under Donald Trump has become a party wandering aimlessly in the street talking to itself and responding to itself, and all the rest of us have become the pedestrians trying to avoid that guy,” ---Patrick Gaspard, a former Obama White House political director who is now president of the Open Society Foundations https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-racism-white-nationalism-republicans/2020/07/04/2b0aebe6-bbaf-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

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