...its not about ideology, or economics, or culture. This is still the last remnant, the final manifestation of Nixon's Southern Strategy. Its about slavery. the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Segregation--and now a reaction to the Civil Rights Movement (and horrors! a black President). I think that really shook a lot of people right down to their foundations.

This single theme can be traced all the way back to the earliest North American settlements on this continent, well over a century before the Declaration of Independence. It surfaces in a myriad ways, in many disguises, and calls itself many names, but it is clearly the same conflict, the same evil. Americans refuse to see it because, like fish, they have no concept that they swim in a dense fluid that shapes their lives, their history, and their very existence.

I thought Obama's election would put it to rest once and for all, but I was mistaken. It just kicked the coals and the fire has blazed yet again.

You will note Mr Trump's history lesson didn't mention "slavery" or "racism" even once. He, and his followers, like the fish swimming in the sea, simply can't see it. They have no idea it is even there.