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The speeches on the last night of the Republican National Convention promised unity, though the messaging throughout was repeatedly hostile to those with different backgrounds and beliefs. From a mass Christian prayer in the convention arena led by evangelical minister Franklin Graham to repeated statements of immigrants flooding US borders and high crime in US cities to blaming teachers for indoctrinating students, it is unclear who the RNC was trying to bring into the fold with their rhetoric. Some of the most inflammatory statements came from Donald Trump, who repeatedly brought up “illegal…

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