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It was a clusterfuck and certain policies run amok - GAVE Trump political traction.
Trump went where no-one had, in recent memory.
Reagan used racist dog whistles, to flip the south to the GOP. Trump was the first, in my memory, to be openly, defiantly, proudly, racist. In the back of my mind, has been the thought, that his dalliance with the "birthers" was market research, to see if an openly racist campaign could get traction. We are living the result. He can get away with anything, as long as he shows his base brown people being beat up.
Steve
