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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:26 PM Jul 2019

'Send Her Back': The Bigoted Rallying Cry of Trump 2020

On Wednesday night in North Carolina, Donald Trump agitated rally-goers with inflammatory rhetoric about Representative Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American born in Somalia, until his supporters began chanting “send her back”––as if a legal immigrant who became a U.S. citizen can or should be denied equal treatment under the law and extra-constitutionally deported by the president.

Burning a copy of the U.S. Constitution would show no more contempt for it than the crowd’s bigoted, nativist reverie about tyrannically deposing an elected member of Congress. No opinion expressed by the congresswoman, no matter how wrongheaded, could excuse the un-American mob.

The crowd’s authoritarian outburst and the purposefully divisive, irresponsible presidential rhetoric that prompted it portends an ugly Trump campaign for reelection. Like “lock her up,” the chant that Trump rally-goers directed at Hillary Clinton in 2016, “send her back” is poised to travel the country with the president.

Already, the civic poison of the chant has been televised and celebrated on social media by Trump supporters. Naturalized immigrants must have heard it and felt anxious. Racists must have heard it and felt glad. Children must have heard it, too, and felt uncomfortable, knowing in their gut that the chant is wrong. Some kids are surely being malignly influenced by its repudiation of the American creed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/send-her-back-the-bigoted-rallying-cry-of-trump-2020/ar-AAEvQl1?li=BBnb7Kz

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'Send Her Back': The Bigoted Rallying Cry of Trump 2020 (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2019 OP
How nice...to see other Americans respect the rights of their fellow Americans by chanting ... SWBTATTReg Jul 2019 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. How nice...to see other Americans respect the rights of their fellow Americans by chanting ...
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:39 PM
Jul 2019

this kind of message and falling into the same guttersnipe hypocrisy that rump is guilty of. That's fine. With each despicable act, with each stupid and ignorant doing, WE get more votes, we gain more respect (of others and ourselves), and in the end, we win.

With this kind of mentality, with this kind of ignorant behavior, I question if ever, our candidates should ever debate the orange monkey since he's lied so much, the media won't call him out on the lies (sometimes but not enough). Why? I'm serious that more damage would be done in ever offering to participate in a debate (he probably wouldn't debate anyway since his stupidity would stand out like a sore thumb).

By the way, Hoyer, who is our national democratic leader, shouldn't she be more visible in going after rump and cronies when they perform their circus acts?

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