Mr Trump’s trade in fear demands calculated equivocation about the white supremacists of the Ku Klux Klan, support for torture in dealing with America’s enemies and branding Mexican immigrants rapists and murderers. For his friends in Europe, it means blaming everything on outsiders and elites — whether Muslims, Roma, the eurocrats of Brussels or mainstream politicians. The name of the game is to substitute political argument with crude invective, facts with prejudice.
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