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Donald Trump’s Theory of Everything

No matter the question, his answer is “illegal immigrants.”
Source: Hannah Beier / Bloomberg / Getty

At Thursday’s debate, while Joe Biden struggled to put a sentence together, Donald Trump struggled to utter any sentence that wasn’t about illegal immigrants destroying the country.

Harsh rhetoric——on migrants and the border has long been a pillar of Trump’s political identity, but it used to slot into a much wider range of grievances. On the campaign

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