As American As Apple Pie

In his 2016 run for president, Donald Trump encouraged fringe white nationalists into the mainstream with his calls for mass deportations of migrants and a ban on all Muslim immigration. Trump's actions legitimized nativist views in American politics; hate speech increased and minority and religious groups became targets. It was as if we were reliving the Jim Crow era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

With Trump's election, fears this is becoming the "new normal" in America are a concern for many. But this is not normal! And this is not what our Founding Fathers had in mind when they forged this country. The tired notion of American Exceptionalism often makes it difficult for many to see our political institutions as not just faulty or broken, but dangerously close to authoritarian. It's a slippery slope as many Americans struggle with the normalization of Trump's words and actions in what some are calling the Post-Truth era, where facts have little power to persuade. Instead, we must be vigilant in countering this process which legitimizes exclusion and separation in our multicultural society. This mix is our strength. Hate, however, is not, and will never be "as American as Apple Pie."

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