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    Donald Trump’s Lost Cause

    The president rode to power by exploiting racial grievance—and now the backlash against his inflammatory acts may doom his reelection chances.
    by David A. Graham Jul 07, 2020 7 minutes
    Source: Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post / Getty

    There’s an old expression wryly deployed across the South: Thank God for Mississippi or we’d be last in everything.

    Donald Trump is now behind even Mississippi. Last week, Governor Tate Reeves signed into law a measure that will remove the Confederate battle flag from the state flag. It was the last state flag in the country to include the Confederate design, though others retain references. The president, meanwhile, is still complaining about decisions to remove the flag.

    In a Monday-morning tweet, he attacked the Black driver Bubba Wallace and bashed NASCAR’s decision to ban the flag from races:

    This broadside followed a July 4 weekend in which Trump eschewed the customary appeals to national unity and instead sought to divide the American people during speeches in South Dakota and Washington,

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