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It's hard to be truly angry at Trump because he hasn't made any secret of his white supremacist views. In the years before his presidential campaign, after all, he was America's leading "birther," spreading the conspiracy theory that our first African-American President wasn't born in this country. And when he did announce his run for the presidency, the very first thing he did was to denounce Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers.

Trump was unrepentant and unapologetic about his racist views long before he hired white nationalist Stephen Bannon to run his campaign, tried to ban Muslims from coming here, praised white supremacists in Charlottesville as "fine people,: pardoned racial-profiling sheriff Joe Arpaio -- and before he described Haiti and African countries as "s--tholes." No one has been alive the last two years could have any reasonable doubt about whether he is a racist.

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White supremacists like David Duke and Richard Spencer have been outspoken in praising Trump for normalizing their repugnant views. Those who denied Trump's racism were either willfully blind or, more likely, disingenuous.

Yet to his base, it didn't matter. Some voted for him because of his racism, others despite it. Either way they were accepting the unacceptable.

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