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• ‟ The America that clings to Confederate statues and flags, and that jealously guards the social privileges white Americans have long enjoyed, form the stalwarts of Trump's base.

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• ‟ America after Trump may be more like the European Union; a rambling alliance of interstate compacts, rather than the forced marriage of a country that emerged after the Civil War.

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• ‟ Ailes built a Kingdom of Yes. That was his genius. He understood the id of many white conservatives - their sense of constant persecution and victimization; and their existential fears of an America whose racial makeup, sexual mores and gender roles were careening in the opposite direction of the country of their childhood.

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• ‟ To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine.

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• ‟ Trumpists want a return to a white, Christian America.

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• ‟ To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.

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• ‟ President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural relevance. In their minds, he was seeking to end their right to bear arms and the right of conservatives to speak freely.

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• ‟ What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.

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