Donald Trump has ripped of the scab of the nation's racial politics, emboldening a kind of overt racism that many convinced themselves had been banished.
" If any, any, assembled Russian units move across the Ukrainian border, that is an invasion, " while noting Russia has a long history of using things other than overt military action to carry out aggression.
" My sense is this was a product of the times in which there has been a real build-up of fear mongering and the overt pressure of armed men. There is nothing quite like a gun in your face."
I might have spoken of the economic position of woman, of the contract, tacit and overt, which a man accepts by his marriage, and of much else; but I felt that there was only one point which really signified.