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The North Star with Shaun King

Trump Appeals to Base by Celebrating the Nation’s Racist Past

thenorthstar
Mar 08, 2019
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When white supremacists get together, funerals follow. This painful pattern repeated itself in August 2017 when neo-Nazis and other white nationalists descended on Charlottesville, Va. to advance efforts to mainstream hate groups.

At the time, Charlottesville was in the throes of a heated public debate about removing a statue of Confederate General Rober…

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