Donald's Trump Long-Gone Racist Suburban American Dream

As if dragging the country into a tiki-torched, kidney-pool HGTV show nobody asked for, President Trump this week introduced his Twitter followers to the “Suburban Lifestyle Dream,” which can best be described as — let him explain:

“I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood,” he wrote on Twitter. He was referring to his desire to repeal a fair housing rule — signed into law in 1968 and strengthened under the Obama administration — that was created to make sure federal funds didn’t support discriminatory housing practices. But he was also continuing an imagined dialogue with a very specific group of voters:

“The Suburban Housewives of America must read this article,” he’d tweeted the week before, linking to an opinion column bashing the housing rule. “Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream. I will preserve it, and make it even better!”

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