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Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a moral witness in the face of injustices. Trump erases that. Trump appeals to a population in which that becomes irrelevant. And that is so dangerous, at this particular time.

Henry Giroux

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Henry Giroux
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 18
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