The Violence of Trump’s Words
FROM THE START, THE ESSENCE OF DONALD TRUMP’S POLITICAL project has been the dehumanization of others. When he descended the gilded escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015 to kick off his presidential campaign, he famously told a national TV audience that Mexico was “not sending their best.” The people coming across the border were “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” ¶ Two months later, two brothers in Boston found Guillermo Rodriguez, a 58-year-old Hispanic
