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The 2016 presidential campaign, marked by schoolyard-bully-level taunts and name-calling, is suddenly taking on some unexpected nuance. It now looks like we’ve got an “I know you are, but what am I?” situation on our hands. Perhaps this is progress?

At a rally on Wednesday night in Jackson, Miss., Donald Trump declared that “Hillary Clinton is a bigot.” Already widely branded a racist for his campaign trail commments about Mexicans and Muslims, Trump has been newly under fire on the racism front for naming Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen Bannon as his campaign CEO given that site’s association with white nationalist/white supremacist movements (see: “Alt Right Rejoices at Donald Trump’s Steve Bannon Hire”). Trump’s words in Jackson in context:

Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. She’s going to do nothing for African-Americans, she’s going to do nothing for the Hispanics. She’s only going to take care of herself, her husband, her consultants, her donors. These are the people she cares about. She doesn’t care what her policies have done to your communities. She doesn’t care. Remember this: You’ve had her policies, Democrats, running some of the inner cities for 50, 70, 80 — even over 100 years. And look what you have right now. Poverty, no education, crime. You can’t walk down the street with your child. We’re going to fix it, we’re going to fix it.

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