No, it wasn't just our imagination. It never was, it was always there.
This isn't new, but social media is new enough, though, that now the racism has a name, a face, an address, and a geo-locator.
Trump didn't start it, he just flushed the multiple aged “nymphs” out of their hiding places for the whole world to see them for what they are.
The Root reports: “Pennsylvania GOP Official Resigns After Calling Protesting NFL Players 'Baboons' and 'Ignorant Blacks' on Facebook” …
There is nothing else to say.