THE inscription on the Statue of Liberty goes something like: ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breath free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me...’
I guess now with the “Donald” in charge the inscription would be unprintable.
Trumps aggressive break with the typical politicians syrupy civility was taken as a sign of contempt for the alien, the different, those perceived as threatening.
Trump engages in the Old South tactic of drawing attention by surpassing all others in race-baiting and fear-mongering, but this tactic only works where an atmosphere of racial friction and fear already exists, its just that Trump opportunistically says it the loudest.
T King
Five Locks Road
Pontnewydd
Cwmbran
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