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Don’t let people scrub history and further advantageous lies. Trump isn’t the only racist president ever. A cursory glance of our past shows abhorrent beliefs. He is representative of a much larger problem that won’t just go away once he’s gone. 1/
So much of our story is made antiseptic by cherished myths and out and out lies. Trump is notable not because he’s racist but because he’s so much less talented and capable of hiding it. He differs because it’s so unabashedly apparent. 2/
In order for this country to progress we’re going to have to unwind and dispel these myths. There’s a lot of work to do, but the first step, without a doubt, is to recognize that Trump isn’t the disease, he’s the physical embodiment of it. 3/
This is a tipping point. The lies that have buttressed so much of the bad behavior and toxic policies of this country are becoming evident. The only we get past, though, and progress, is to be honest about how we got here so we can start to find a way out. 4/4
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