NP - It's not a slur if it's true.

[David Morris]

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/27/16701780/nyt-nazis-trump

In American life, it is considered a slur to call someone a racist, or a
bigot, or a xenophobe, even though it is clear that racist, bigoted, and
xenophobic ideas carry broad appeal and hold many adherents. Trump gained
stature in the Republican Party as the foremost proponent of a racist
conspiracy theory suggesting the first African-American president wasn’t an
American at all, he launched his campaign by saying Mexican immigrants were
rapists and criminals, and he won Iowa after calling for a ban on Muslim
travel. He thus created a collision in our political culture: To state the
drivers of his appeal plainly was to slander his supporters.

And so emerged a powerful effort to recast straightforward support for a
straightforward message as something both more complex and more sympathetic
— “economic anxiety
<https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-economic-anxiety-is-driving-working-class-voters-to-trumpism>
?”
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