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I would not want to call any Trump supporter a bigot.

That is more their game, slinging the shit at opponents.

I doubt many of them would hesitate to call me a "faggot".

I would not say that they were racists either. An unfair generalization based on the actions of a few.

But I am not the only one who "notices" that a lot of his support comes from the great unwashed and ignorant base that has always been around. Sometimes in hiding sometimes not.

What the great H.L. Mencken called the "booboisie".

These are the people who, for a while now, have had to go into their closets and button their lips.

But now, The Donald has given permission to return to outspoken racism and bullying. The conspiracists.

What Are Trump Fans Really ‘Afraid’ to Say?

Sadly, here is what I have been thinking too.

I live in a city where "they" means Mexicans. The people who used to own this territory. The people who are the biggest ethnic minority or close to a majority that we have here. There are blacks and a sprinkling of oriental folks but they are few and far between. Easy to isolate and not include. Outsiders.

The "Anmerica Firsters" have always used "dog whistles" and innuendo in their rhetoric. You can't hear it unless you are part of the bitter haters who listen for it.

As a gay man I learned about these things a long time ago. Being gay sensitizes me to innuendo and insinuation. I am not complaining. I have my own way of dealing with it. Effectively. Call it out and label it. Scare the shit out of them in return. Yeh. I am not proud of it but I know how to do that and never raise a finger. My mouth is my weapon of choice.

But to work as hard as Trump is working to label and accuse is blatant demagoguery.

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