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Ex-GOP aide: Trump to blame for Black woman being terrified by white supremacists
Permission Structure, Not Just a PhotographThe Image Is the EvidenceA former Bush adviser, Steve Schmidt, looked at a July 4 photo of Patriot Front members clustered around a Black woman on a Washington, D.C. bus and said the obvious thing that too many political reporters still dodge: the scene is not an anomaly floating outside politics. Schmidt ties it to Trump’s legacy, arguing that Trump exploited old racism, legitimized it, rewarded it, and turned extremism into social permission.That is the right frame. The photo matters because it shows what political permission looks like when it…
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