"Unlike Lincoln, the better angels of our nature, he appealed to our worst demons and got elected."

[DetlefK]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/youre-answering-your-own-question-michael-eric-dyson-shuts-down-cnn-host-for-downplaying-racism/

Georgetown Sociology Professor Michael Eric Dyson connected the dots for CNN on Wednesday between racism in America and Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory.

During an appearance on CNN’s New Day, Dyson explained that Barack Obama’s presidency “provoked a kind of racial animus that we haven’t seen explicitly expressed in America for quite a while.”

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“Your faith in the American citizenry is pretty high,” Dyson shot back. “They overlooked what? The fact that Donald Trump for two years with lethal intensity continued to assault a sitting president as — quote — illegitimate and, now thin-skinned as he is, can’t even take John Lewis saying that you may be illegitimate.”

“I don’t think people overlooked that,” he continued. “I think he ginned up the racial animus, I think he appealed to the worst instincts in our nature. Unlike Lincoln — the better angels of our nature — he appealed to the worst demons on our collective enterprise of thinking about American citizenship and democracy. And as a result of that, got elected.”



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The Republicans are no longer the party of Lincoln. They are the party of Trump now.

[dalton99a]

1. The demon-elected president.

[kentuck]

2. That is so depressing...

because it is true.