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The narratives that led to Trump’s popularity among a segment of the population are obscene and violent. I understand that the office requires obscenity and violence. I’m reacting to what a vote signifies in this environment. White Trump supporters terrify me. (Those who imagine the Democrats to be a safe alternative instill a special kind of trepidation.) Whiteness produced untold terror well before Donald Trump existed, but he embodies a brand of nativism that summons the ugliest epochs of US history. People of color are made to relive the ugliness in each profession of national pride. I returned to America from Beirut to find a change of form but not of function. Those who imagine themselves privy to genetic and cultural superiority are simply more emboldened to announce their predilections.
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