NY Times: Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored

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2. It reminded me of a 60s era Klan rally.

I was in college, in Texas, and the Klan was big. They held Sunday socials, rodeos, car shows and parades, and they figured prominently in local business, churches, government and the police. The one place where they didn't find a willing audience was the college campus. The admin shocked the community by welcoming "colored" students, and while there were local black and brown and red kids, we had many more ethnicities that came from the airbase where foreign pilots came to train, many bringing their families.

The Klan would react by suddenly converging on campus and the mob would start yelling and cursing, shouting the same vile things that I heard coming from those Trump supporters. Back in the day, they wanted to scare us, to drive the "foreigners" out and demand that the admin stop corrupting "their colored folk" (when Trump asked where "my African-American" was, it was deja vu) with stuff like an education, and now, nearly 50 years later, it's back again.