Jane Ruffino: Hate is a core part of our history

Pretending these ideas aren’t there hasn’t prevented polarised people from gaining political voice

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump takes a photo with an attendee at the end of a rally at Great Bay Community College last week. Picture: Getty

Last November, when it first became clear that Donald Trump wasn’t going to disappear from the never-ending US election season any time soon, Twitter user Rachel Goldberg wrote: “Basically, Donald Trump is what would happen if the comments section became a human and ran for president.”

There’s Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and then there are the ‘Bernie bros’, who are real (and if you want to smoke them out, simply make ...