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“Send Her Back” Replaces “Lock Her Up”
Other than that, Trump’s got no new material.
We expected a lot more of the President at his first rally following his racist comments of last weekend that stirred up the country so much since then.
Some new broad sweeping vision however despicable it might be. Some heightened controversial proposals. Surely he had something up his sleeve if his racist Tweets were actually the brilliant political masterstroke a bunch of pundits with nothing better to do are making them out to be. But no. All we got was same-old. At the same time, the President accurately lambasted those very same pundits, saying they say:
“He’s really stupid. But then the next week he has a sinister plot to take over the world”.
Yes, when Trump brought up Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) MN, chants of “send her back” erupted. They filled the slot in his rally that used to be reserved for “lock her up”.
Here’s a glimpse (click on the photo to watch):
We’re not trying to minimize the repugnance of this chant. Yeah it does normalize saying those things, especially if the President says them first. But…
