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A lot of nonwhite people in America know what it's like to feel heat from the authorities, but, you know, all sorts of people can start to feel it now if Trump comes in.

Allan Nairn

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Allan Nairn
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
Human Rights Activist
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If Trump wins, the only thing blocking complete implementation of the programs of Trump, Paul Ryan, the Koch brothers, etc., is the Senate filibuster by the Democrats.
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Hillary Clinton isn't that different from Obama in terms of policy.
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If Donald Trump wins, it represents a rightist revolution in America.
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When Donald Trump attacks the trade deals, which have helped to gut the American working class, it's very powerful, even though his solutions are nonsense. And Hillary Clinton can't really defend it, because that's part of the life's work of her and her - of her and her husband.
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Donald Trump has this ability to trigger. He makes that kind of gut appeal.
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The substantive difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is not really that great.
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Whites who otherwise were able to tolerate a black president, Obama, because on certain issues he appealed to them on substance, Trump was able to reach down into some of those same people and pull out this racism inside them.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.
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Donald Trump has this ability to reach out and touch the beast inside so many people.
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