How Donald Trump liberated the lunatics

He's all anger, all the way down

What kind of people are attracted to Donald Trump's policies?
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Who are these people?

Admit it, even if you're a Republican, you've had that thought watching the Republican National Convention. Maybe it was when Rep. Steve King of Iowa pronounced that whites have contributed more to "civilization" than members of certain unnamed "subgroups." Or maybe it was when a pastor invoked Jesus Christ in leading the convention in a prayer to defeat the "enemy," who is "Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party."

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.