re: How did it come to this?

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If you can't see there was a vein of white nationalism behind Trump's ascension to the GOP nomination

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Sure there is. I have no problem acknowledging that it exists.

The difference is that I'll say it but I seriously doubt you will recognize that Obama got a great deal of support solely because of his race and he's spent the last 8 years interjecting himself into local issues with a race angle (virtually every time on the side eventually proven to be factually wrong) in a fashion that served to worsen the situation.

The night he was elected, I knew I wouldn't care for his policies but my one hope was that he'd help improve race relations. Instead he's poured gas and threw matches.