But there is reason to believe 2020 may be different from 2016 and 1968, said Michael Tesler, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine and author of Post-Racial or Most Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era. … “The country views Trump as a racial arsonist at a time when racial reconciliation is needed,” he wrote in an email.

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