This is personal, too: Although he wasn't in charge for many of the years when the backlash began building in various of the city's minority communities, the revolution that he had launched in the 1990s has lately
attracted much blame for the rising anger.
But many have
blamed Trump's success on pure prejudice, as he staked
much of his candidacy on plans to build a wall on the Mexican border, deport undocumented immigrants and bar Muslims from entering the country — and
attracted support from the Ku Klux Klan and other groups and figures associated with white nationalism.