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title: "Substitute Trump for FDR and Mexicans for Jews, and the rhetoric is…"
date: 2020-01-28
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships updated his status.
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# Substitute Trump for FDR and Mexicans for Jews, and the rhetoric is…

*January 28, 2020 · Facebook*

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Substitute Trump for FDR and Mexicans for Jews, and the rhetoric is almost identical to modern nativist rhetoric:\
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\""\[Trump\]\'s unflattering statements about \[Mexicans\] consistently reflected one of several interrelated notions: that is was undesirable to have too many \[Mexicans\] in any single profession, institution, or geographic locale; that America was by nature, and should remain, an overwhelmingly white, Protestant country; and that \[Mexicans\] on the whole possessed certain innate and distasteful characteristics," wrote Medoff.\"
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