Thread by @VABVOX

I just wasted over an hour of my life trying to explain the #MuslimBan and The Wall to Trump supporters who claim Trump loves Muslims and Mexicans.

They told me I was racist for claiming Trump was racist and said I was a "pathetic excuse for a journalist" and "Fake News."
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I don't know how we fight this entrenched distrust of reality. I just never witnessed anything like it before. Folks joke about Trump supporters not being well-educated, but it's something much deeper.

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The Mexicans and Muslims for Trump rode into my mentions on the tails of an attack on Michelle Obama.

I'm not going to ignore those attacks. MO was one of the two most important FLOTUSes in my lifetime. She helped change the discourse on WOC on this country by her presence.
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But Republicans are still calling her "Michael," still claiming she's a man, still saying she accomplished nothing.
I won't let that stand.
Michelle Obama is still opening discourse about misogyny and racism that must be heard.
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What caught me off-guard was POC, especially WOC, on the Trump train.

I tried to just be welcoming when I was asked "how's the Resistance?" and proffer an invitation.

But it escalated quickly because Trump supporters are cultists. No matter what the objective facts are.
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This is so worrying for this country. They honestly have a Trump narrative that refutes all objective reality.

This one person told me "All [his] relatives voted Trump"--and said Trump loves Mexicans.Even though we have tape of Trump calling Mexicans rapists and drug dealers.
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Somalia is on Trump's #MuslimBan list, but the Somali woman called me a racist for saying Trump wanted to keep Somalis out.

And then the Mexican for Trump guy said I was lying about Trump and he has never said anything about Mexicans.

How do we fight this?
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How do we fight such deeply embraced lies?

Last weekend in Michigan Trump literally led a chant about getting Hispanics out and MSM was so obsessed with SHS's smoky eye they ignored this alarming incident.
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It seems like the more great journalism some of us write, the more entrenched Trump's followers get in their alternative facts.

Saturday night I watched Judge Jeanine on Fox News. I had never seen her before & had only vaguely heard of her.

She ginned people up for an hour.
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The entire tone of her hour was pure hysteria. Talk of Deep State and witch hunts and fake news: it's a whole different world. I felt as if I were in a foreign country where I didn't speak the language, yet Hillary Clinton was still the main topic.

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People are not leaving the cult. They have their own network and this coterie of people with massive followers who feed them stories of Deep State and invented Hillary crimes and teens who are "crisis actors" and it would be surreal if it weren't happening on TV every night.
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We REALLY need to win back the House.
We need to turn this Trump train around.
We need to register new voters.
We need to take OUR country back where immigrants really are welcomed and where families like mine aren't terrorized and where no one is building a wall.
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