Donald Trump Has Fired Up His Base: Birthers and Xenophobes
I have to admit that Thursday night came as a surprise. Up until a flathead from White Plains rose up at a Donald Trump bigot availability and called for the deportation of all Muslims beginning with the one in the White House who wasn’t even born here, I’d underestimated the extent to which birtherism was the pure dark energy beneath the Libidinous Visitor’s puzzling burst of national appeal. I outsmarted myself to the extent that I believed that the LV had found a way to use his previous specific public lunacy as subtext to his more general and (tragically) more saleable 2015 xenophobia. That turned out to be somewhat, ahem, premature.
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