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Just walk into any bar that is frequented by working class people and you will become immediately aware of the deep seated animosity that they hold for minorities. This is most especially evident in their outright hatred of President Obama. He is the epitome of their hatred. Their contempt of African-Americans is only slightly more vehement than the contempt that they have for Hispanic and Asians.
Trump is only appealing to the prejudices of the Republican working class which not solely confined to only Republicans, but also significant percentage of Democrats and Independents. The tactics that he is employing in his campaign are little different than those of the fascists, Mussolini or Hitler. This is most evident in his attack on illegal immigrants. They are comparable to Hitler's scapegoat, the Jews, in which he blames the loss of jobs and crime on them. He is going to round them all up and expel them and return America to its pure white class just as Hitler promised to purify Germany and restore its racial purity. This is also exactly what is behind his determination to repeal birth right citizenship.
It plays on the grand delusion that America has lost its past superiority when the leadership was in the hands of the white majority. What is the most frightening aspect of this onslaught is that the MSM will not condemn it. Rather that denouncing it as evil, they are providing tacit justification for his tactics of exploitation of prejudices by their silence. I can only pray for the sake of the country that this latest outburst of demagoguery will quickly dissipate as the quickly as McCarthy's witch hunt. However, I am still waiting for a Ed Murrow to slay this latest demon.
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