Who is to blame.

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I don't think his campaign promises were explicitly racist. But the initial promise to exclude all Muslim immigrants was clearly an appeal to bigotry.

Racism is just the first born son of bigotry as antisemitism is the son of racism. It's all about semantics. If you single a certain demographic out to call them all kinds of names and broadbrush them to be inferior, you are a bigot or at least someone appealing to the most primitive insticts of your followers. In this context it doesn't matter if it's about jews, muslims, mexicans or stamp collectors. The unerlying sentiment is always the same.

As I always say, try to insert "jew" instead of Mexican into the first speech of Trump. Right when he announced his candidacy. Try it on for size, let it roll off your tongue and you see where this is going.

I was talking to a guy the other day who was born from Mexican immigrants (didn't ask him if his parents were legal), but he identifies first as American in his identity hierarchy. He also refers to himself as an American Mexican, not a Mexican American like the left says he's supposed to identify as. He mentioned some of his other latino and black friends also supported Trump, and also identified themselves as Americans. One guy called himself an American African, not an African American. They all have friends that think Trump is the worst, and call them race traitors, and racist against latinos and blacks. That's how disconnected the regressive alt-left has become, and also why the democratic party imploded. There is a great awakening in the US, because the more the left doubles down on their flawed and failed ideology of dividing the populations into groups, people are seeing what it is. Just devisive victim ideology and identity politics. 

Trump won because the message was more for America as a whole. Gays, blacks, religious, atheists, latinos, men, women, Asians, Indians, all have something in common. Instead on focusing on what's best for each group, focus on what's good for the whole. Reigniting the economy, removing the govenor Obama put on our economic engine by shutting down power plants, making industry to expensive to run in this country leading to manufacturing in other countries is something that resonates. Rising tides raises all ships. It has nothing to do with racism.

I think some of you extreme leftists should talk to some former leftists. They will explain the transition.