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When an economic downturn hit San Francisco in the 1870s, white people blamed Chinese immigrants for stealing their jobs and began to villainize opium, a substance associated with the Chinese community.

But more than likely, what they're going to do is they're going to pick a minority group, and they're going to blame that minority group, and they're going to go across the media, they're going to go use their social media influencers, and they're going to villainize some minority group so they can divide people in Alabama.

“It’s a chink out of our system of government to villainize law firms like this.”

We must also resist the temptation to villainize those who currently support the president and where possible and safe to do so, instead seek to listen more deeply to their concerns and build relationships across our major divides.

The Trump administration will villainize those artists, educators, influencers and writers who are fearless enough to acknowledge that this election was the calculated outcome of a strategy to hand America over to its wealthiest few.