Trump closes his campaign as he opened it: Preaching xenophobia and hate

Daily Kos Staff

Monday November 07, 2016 · 10:10 AM PST

2016/11/07 · 10:10

PENSACOLA, FL - NOVEMBER 02: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Maritime Park's Hunter Amphitheater November 2, 2016 in Pensacola, Florida. With less than a week before Election Day in the United States, Trump and his opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, are campaigning in key battleground states that each must win to take the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Because Donald Trump is truly a terrible person, he appeared yesterday in Minnesota to quadruple down on one of his most consistent campaign arguments: Xenophobic frothing against immigrants—especially refugees.

Donald Trump on Sunday stepped up his attacks on Muslim refugees, saying they will bring “generations of terrorism” into the US, adding that Minnesota had “suffered enough” since the state has become home to Somali refugees. [...]
“She wants virtually unlimited immigration and refugee admissions, from the most dangerous regions of the world, to come into our country and to come into Minnesota, and you know it better than anybody,” Trump told his crowd. “Her plan will import generations of terrorism, extremism, and radicalism into your schools and throughout your community. You already have it.”

Many Minnesota residents were infuriated. Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges was among them.

You say "don't let them roam our communities" like you have already created the fascist state you are hoping to turn this country into. This is America, Donald, and the Somali people of Minnesota and Minneapolis are not *roaming* our communities, they are *building* them. [...]
Minneapolis is a better, stronger place for having our Somali and East African immigrants and refugees in it. It is a privilege and an honor to be mayor of the city with the largest Somali population in this country. Your ignorance, your hate, your fear just make me remember how lucky we are to have neighbors who are so great.

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For those not paying attention, there is no crisis of terrorism, extremism, or radicalism in Minnesota—Donald Trump is simply a racist. He supposes the immigrant community in the state is radical because of course he does, and because the racist twit "news" sites from which his campaign pulls their talking points suppose it to be true. And the fact is not lost either on non-deplorable state residents or Somali immigrants themselves.

Mahamoud Ibrahim stewed about Donald Trump as he packed for a three-week U.S. Army Reserve training. In a Thursday speech, the Republican presidential candidate suggested that Somali refugees have turned Minnesota into a hotbed for terror recruitment and frayed its social safety net.
“I never thought he’d go there and blatantly call Somali Americans a danger,” said Ibrahim, an Inver Hills Community College student who enlisted in 2014. “It hurts listening to that.”

So once again in these final hours, Donald Trump ends his campaign like he started it: being a lying racist, peddling hate to lying racists. There was never anything else to it—or anything else he could "pivot" to.

Trump closes his campaign as he opened it: Preaching xenophobia and hate

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