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Trump Goes Full-On Racist So There’s No Doubt About It
These Tweets are just so bad and inexcusable, no matter how misguided you feel someone’s policy priorities may be:
While we generally have a rule never to write a column that’s simply a reaction to an incendiary Trump Tweet, we’re breaking the rule today.
Lots of people are spending a lot of time speculating about whom specifically Trump is referring to, since Trump himself doesn’t specify: running down all the Democratic members of Congress born outside the U.S., and also those born inside the U.S. who irk Trump the most (and probably not coincidentally, are women and people of color and sometimes Muslim.) No one did this better than Aaron Blake in the Washington Post. (Who knew that there are 5 Democrats in Congress who were born overseas? But Trump…