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Oct 5, 2020
With Trump’s diagnosis, it’s hard to know what will happen next. But one thing is certain: there will be a white backlash. “If Trump survives you can bet he will come out on the other side as a hero to his base, who now sees someone who overpowered the disease that killed 200,000 people,” writes David Dennis, Jr. And if he dies, “Donald Trump becomes a martyr, and the heartbreak and rage that emerges from the most violent groups that love him manifests itself in anger directed at everyone else.”
