His defense of the need for a wall to keep out Mexican immigrants, with the racist assertion that many of them are rapists.13 His use, when describing immigrants, of the phrase “These aren’t people. These are animals.”14 His scaremongering descriptions of “caravans” of refugees traveling from Central America to the United States, in which he claimed, “women are raped at levels that have never been seen before.”15 His use of such rhetoric to excuse inhumane policies, like separating young children from their families and keeping them in cages. These were not just far-right policies. They were
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This is how you know America is worthless now.
