This will be brief. Donald Trump decided to be Donald Trump and say something xenophobic about this group of Democratic Representatives, whom I have been bashing lately. There is irony. Trump doesn't like them because he's racist and xenophobic.
I don't like them because they are anti-intellectual, they don't know very much, they think that politics should be conducted via twitter, and they treat everything as being a contest of identity, even when it isn't. In other words, I don't like them because...
I think they're too much like Donald Trump.
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