Trump’s Rhetoric of Hate

The four congresswomen he targeted represent the best of America

We are witnessing a president who uses racially charged — i.e.racist — tweets and rhetoric to control opinion. To control crowds. To incite hate. This week we saw him speak about the four freshman Congresswomen (known affectionately as “the squad”) using a racist trope: “go back to where you come from.” This rhetoric is widely agreed to be racist and has a dark history of being used to spread racism. This is beyond the fact that these four women are Americans, three of them born in this country. The US Representatives are…