Last Sunday, Krystal Lake, a 22-year-old Home Depot employee on Staten Island, was photographed wearing a hat that says, “America Was Never Great.”
It’s in the same font and style of Trump’s campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again.”
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Of course, death threats and hate mail targeting her have come pouring in — which, if you think about it, lends itself to her feeling like she was right to wear the hat in the first place.
About two months ago, I wrote a column about the word “again” in Trump’s slogan. I think it’s a racist dog whistle and it gets to the heart of the point of the hat Krystal Lake was wearing.
What does the word great mean?
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