There is a common thread that runs through Donald Trump's history, one that gives us the likely reason for his very specific hostility toward one segment of immigrants.

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Parallels in history are not hard to find with my President. The third emperor of ancient Rome used at least one remarkably similar military tactic.

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Republican candidates around the country now insist they support protection for those with pre-existing conditions.

And Republican lawmakers from every part of the nation are working to get their healthcare promises declared illegal.

Here's how.

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Cute little blue and pink baby bonnets can teach us something important about the reasons Republicans are giving for plans to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

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The Trump administration tax cuts for the wealthy, and Republican plans to slash Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, can all be traced back to a line drawn on a napkin in 1974.

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It is a fictional lament from four decades ago. When our national leadership sees only winning and losing sides, we all lose.

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Steve Bannon said he wanted to do for the GOP in Alabama what propagandist Leni Riefenstahl did for German Nazis in the 1930s.

In his own way, he succeeded.

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Conservatives blame Democrats for their failures in health care repeal.

Democrats would do well to remember Bobby Kennedy and his handling of a confrontation over half a century ago.

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Spiro Agnew purged a Senator in 1970. Trump hates a Senator in 2017.

One was about policy.

The other is simply petty.

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They accuse fake news of dragging America to a dangerous place.

But it turns out the news was not fake and those reports are showing us who has been doing the dragging.

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