Tuesday, September 13, 2016

A sample from the Trump basket


The overwhelming majority of Trump aficionados support his proposed ban on Muslim immigrants---a policy many Republican elected officials opposed as an unconstitutional religious test---while two-thirds of them register unfavorable views of American Muslims. A plurality of Republicans supported Trump’s claim that a Mexican-American judge was inherently biased and therefore unfit to preside over his fraud trial. (In the same poll, a huge majority of Republicans deemed Trump’s comments not racist, despite Paul Ryan’s admission that it constituted a textbook example of racism.) Two-thirds of voters who like Trump consider President Obama a Muslim, and three-fifths of them believe he was not born in the United States.


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