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One thing the elicits groans, protests and eye-rolls from the MAGA crowd is the argument that Trump has unleashed a new vocal racism in America.  Some of this is that they just don't understand how racism works or even what it is. 

Anyway, we have the following issues. First, a rather conspicuous number of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and just plain old racists are running for office on the Republican ticket.  Second, we have increased expressions of racist sentiments, whether from law enforcement, private citizens or the makers of incredibly shitty pizzas.

It's clear that Trump didn't "cause" this. These people were always there.  The biggest lie the media told in 2008 was that somehow electing Barack Obama "ended racism."  If anything, it created rocket fuel for a select group of ignorant, hateful people, which combined with the dark corners of the Internet. 

One "friend" on Facebook (who doesn't even live in America anymore) liked to rant about Obama was so racially divisive.  Obama bent over backwards to diffuse every possible racist charge against him or his administration.  To the degree that he tried to address racial tensions, it consisted of anodyne measures like having a "beer summit" with a cop who arrested one of America's premier intellectuals on his own porch or noting that his son could have looked like Trayvon Martin.  That racist incidents have increased under Trump has to be conceded as a given, though I doubt the MAGAts will concede it. 

The Trumpenproletariat is essentially that people who think that whites are the real victims of racism, because their idiot child didn't get into Harvard or because the post-Reagan capitalism has blighted their towns and they blame "those people" who "get everything" from the state.  Those voters are lost to the 21st century.

They are deplorable.