America’s Founding Father Would Be Outraged By Trump
Politics,George Washington,Donald Trump,Polarization
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What would our first president think of our 45th? George Washington would be horrified by Donald J. Trump’s claim that there were “fine people” among those who rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, with neo-Nazis, Klansmen and white nationalists, and that they were morally equivalent to those who protested the event.
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