As Donald Trump dominates the GOP nomination race and some of his inflammatory comments find favor with the party faithful, CBS News measured how the public feels about his “poisoning the blood” language. A striking number of voters agree with this description of immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally, and among Republicans, associating the remarks with Trump himself makes them even likelier to agree.
Because they existed a long, long time ago. As the straight white conservative male hegemony has lost power, the number of people they’re allowed to hate has shifted accordingly. Now they’re okay with any kind of Catholicism, any shade of white, and you can be a woman as long as you’re okay with being sexually assaulted. If they ever managed to regain their stronghold majority in politics, there’s no doubt in my mind they’d start turning on themselves as the old divisions started to come through.