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Trump and This Murdering KKK Cannibal Have a Lot in Common

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The Trial of the Century

Timothy Stanley: We know how we have arrived at this point in history. He says the election of Donald Trump is white supremacy's last stand kind of in the way that you would enter into the hundred year war wondering if it's going to be over in a few months. In 1923, white supremacy was institutionalized in the form of Jim Crow in the south where basically took the citizenship rights away from 37% of Americans. Fast forward to today. Now you have Tennessee creating an act that just could have been pulled from any time in the racist past of the Ku Klux Klan's reign over that. But you have pushback at least. I mean, then you had a handful of people

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