But there is a development with Trump that is unique: he is treating the nation—which, by default, is white and Christian, though technically it is neither—as white folk have treated black folk throughout our history. Trump is treating the entire nation as black. More particularly, he is treating the entire nation as “the nigger.” One of the reasons for the special outrage of many white Americans toward him is that he has forgotten the rules; that sort of treatment is for blacks, not whites. That need not be a conscious belief for it to be true. The reason his views on immigration can be
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