With Latest Nativist Rhetoric, Trump Takes America Back To Where It Came From
Posted on AllSides July 19th, 2019
From The Left
OPINION
With his latest round of attacks on four first-year members of Congress who are women of color, President Trump has once again touched the raw nerve of racism in American life.
He has also tapped into one of the oldest strains in our politics — the fear and vilification of immigrants and their descendants.
Although three of the four women were born in the United States, the president said they should all "go back" where they came from. That phrase has echoed down generations of nativist discourse as successive waves...