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Tutorials of Toxicity 0

Will Bunch, in the course of a long column about the spread of the Trump toxin through our polity, notes a particularly distressing incident involving a young girl in the audience behind Donald Trump at last week’s rally in Greenville, North Carolina. He suggests that Trump’s rallies are training seminars for hate and the hate-full:

What struck me is that — while Trump preened for a full 13 seconds, Mussolini-style, for the chanting hoard — this young girl did not join in … at first. But as she looks around the big basketball arena, the delirium of the angry grown-ups is contagious. By the end of the 13 seconds, the girl is starting to mouth the words herself. “Send her back! Send her back!”

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