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The root of Trumpism is white privilege (and for nonwhite believers, a desire to acquire some for themselves), including a âGod-givenâ right to violate the rules and the laws that less ârealâ Americans have to follow. This also includes believing whoever you vote for HAS to win. https://twitter.com/crazykarens/status/1350140253181517826
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BTW the âweâ as reportedly used is doing a lot of work there. Based on her name, Ms. Falco-DiCorrado may be Italian? Italians largely arrived between 1880 and the flapper era & were the subject of 1920s right wing efforts to bar âundesirableâ migrants. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1924-law-slammed-door-immigrants-and-politicians-who-pushed-it-back-open-180974910/
And the reasons many came, despite being discriminated against by those white Americans who saw them, and Jewish and other groups as âlesser whitesâ will sound familiar: they were starving where they were and needed work, to survive and to send money home. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/opinion/illegal-immigration-italian-americans.html
And if she is indeed a Trump supporter, her guyâs first AG, Jefferson Sessions and his former aide-turned Trump henchman Stephen Miller tried to revive those bad old rules, which would have turned people like her away. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/jeff-sessions-1924-immigration/512591/
Irony is the wickedest comedian. That said, the âall-leopard everythingâ look was a bold choice.
