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Donald Trump, and the unsettling rise of white identity politics

If Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who allegedly massacred nine congregants at a black church in Charleston, wants a race war, he's got one. So wrote Vester Flanagan in a rambling, at times barely coherent, manifesto explaining why he murdered two white journalists during a live news broadcast, before he turned his gun on himself. Describing himself as "somewhat racist" against blacks and Latinos as well as whites, and complaining he had been bullied by other black men because he was gay, Flanagan's motives are more convoluted than Roof's.

 

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