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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

1992: The year politics broke

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Trump's Political Identity and Birtherism

Trump's entrance into national politics through birtherism highlighted his deliberate move to stake his political identity on the conspiracy theory about Obama's citizenship, which revealed an underlying belief in Trumpism that certain Americans are not truly American. This stands out as a key aspect of Trump's political foundation, challenging the notion of a serious intellectual underpinning to conservatism and exposing a core myth of Trumpism.

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