During a phone call last night, an old friend and I puzzled
over the scary phenomenon of the growing number of Trump supporters who buy
into their idol’s bigotry toward anyone different from them, e.g., Syrian
refugees, immigrants from Mexico, etc. My friend and I wondered about the
source of their vehement hatred of “the other.” Today, I came across a possible answer
in an item in Politico by Nick Gass.
Gass quotes yesterday’s NY
Times op-ed by former Sarah Palin aide Nicole Wallace:
"With his call to deport illegal immigrants, especially
because Mexico sends us its 'bad ones,' his proposal to bar Muslims from
entering the country, his emphasis on the threats to lawful gun ownership and
his promise to protect American goods and workers from China, Mr. Trump is
riding the wave of anxiety that Ms. Palin first gave voice to as Senator John
McCain’s running mate," Wallace wrote. "Mr. Trump has now usurped and
vastly expanded upon Ms. Palin’s constituency, but the connection between the
two movements is undeniable."
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