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What would Mister Rogers say and think about Donald Trump's evil and cruelty towards refugee and migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border? #WhereAreTheChildren #WhereAreTheBabies #WhereAreTheGirls

My new .@salon

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Mister Rogers was not just a kind man. He was a radical truth-teller and philosopher who possessed and lived an ideology of justice. I speak with professor Michael Long .@salon about this vision and also how the new documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" gives it short thrift.
Michael Long has written extensively on the philosophy of Mister Rogers and how his radical politics are a corrective to the cruelty and evil we have seen in the right-ward turn in America and the neoliberal regime more generally.
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Donald Trump is America's Racist-in-Chief. He is literally fulfilling a white supremacist wish list. Trump's most recent gift? Tweeting about "white genocide" in South Africa. My new .@salon

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Donald Trump's White House is a den and hive of racists and others who are aligned with or sympathetic to so-called "white nationalists". Speech writer Darren Beattie is but one such example. My new .@salon

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Will there be violence between Republicans and Democrats in Trump's broken America? Political parties are increasingly like sports teams. The Trumpists and other Republicans are soccer hooligans. My new .@salon

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Monday, 10 December 2018
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Good Lord! It never fails that I step away from the frey for a day and come back to something like THIS! Mind blowing! #FridayFeeling #NoFamilySeparation
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2/ Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross discussed adding a citizenship question to the U.S. census with Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach

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Our journey
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to flee our abusers

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It took weeks to get here
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I've been thinking a lot about this tweet.

My thoughts below:
1. It is 100% true. Hitler didn't rise in a day. It took months, years even, or eroding democratic norms. It wasn't an avalanche. It was a drip, drip, drip.

We are seeing this here, clearly.
2. Trump is following the Hitler playbook. It is horrifying to see. He is scapegoating groups, actively subverting our trust in the press, setting up systems to tear away children from families, messing with our economy and railroading politicians into backing him at all cost.
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