‘Culture wars’: The Trump effect

By Nathaniel Tan

IN retrospect, I think a Malaysianised version of one of the most lasting legacies of Donald Trump could be surmised as: “Saya white supremacist, saya ok.”

I’m not going to write a rant about how and why white supremacy is bad, though it obviously is.

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