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Let's take a little deeper into this whole "go back home" tweet. You all know the background. I don't need to give you the background. We're talking about President Trump's tweet that's causing everybody's hair to be on fire. So here, let me show you some of the craziness that this has caused. Over at CNN, where opinion and news are treated as the same thing, and I say that because CNN doesn't do…

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To that point, let me ask you this hypothetically. You're a black citizen of the United States. You've got two friends. One of your friends is a registered Democrat. One of your friends is a registered Republican. Which one's going to help you get a job? Which one's going to do you a favor? Well, maybe both. But I'll tell you, have you ever met anybody who, let's say an African American who became a Republican? Have you ever seen an African-American Republican who said that other Republicans treat them poorly? Have you ever seen that? No, you've never seen that. Because Republicans have very clear rules. I'm not a Republican, by the way. All right, so I'm not a Republican, not a conservative. I always tell people I'm left of Bernie, but I have to admit I like Republicans better because they have a set of consistent rules that seem pretty fair to me and they try to live by them and treat other people by the rules.

The rules are the Constitution. If you follow the Constitution, you're good with me. If you follow the laws, you're good with me. And on top of that, I'm not religious, but for a lot of conservatives, if you're religious, it doesn't matter which one, if you've got a faith that informs the way you live, well then you're okay too. Republicans make it very easy to like you. How hard is it to be liked by a Republican? It's really, really easy. You just have to do legal things and work. That's it. In order to be loved by Republicans, just try. You don't even have to succeed. You just have to try. You have to follow the law. You know, sort of love your country, that helps, but that's not even necessary. You know, maybe you shouldn't talk about it so much if you don't love your country. But all Republicans ask is just follow the same rules and try. You don't even have to succeed and we'll love you.

I'll say "we" because I adopt that. I adopt the philosophy of if we're all here trying to do our best, following the same set of rules and respecting the same set of principles, then we're all good. I can't imagine what it would be like to be a person of color and be in the Democrat orbit because over there you've got to be good with a lot of different things. Yeah, it's sort of a shell game over there. Well I was good on this, but did I become a misogynist accidentally? And if I have, I define everything fairly in just the right way.

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Well, I think that something important has happened because this tweet, it seems to me that the charges of racism against each other have uncovered a truth that, like the dog that wasn't barking, it's a truth that we should rejoice at. During the time that we have been talking nonstop about whether the words "go back home" are really racist or just trash talk, while we've been discussing that, how…

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