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Other thing I would add - Trumps ideas about people from poorer countries are really quite inevitable based on a large part of American rhetoric.
As I've said... The US is, and certainly has been, a great country. It's also one that peddles (hard) the idea of patriotism; that if America is great, and you are American, then YOU must be great... So, some seriously "sh*t hole people" believe that they are great people, based on nothing more than coming from a great place.
What's the obvious flipside of this idea? .... If coming from a great country makes you a great person, then coming from a sh*tty country makes you a sh*tty person.
Obviously neither is even slightly true but US patriotism relies on the first part being bought into.
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