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Welcome to Trump country: ‘We’re the silent majority’

Why is Trump winning support in this rural Kentucky town? Human trafficking, world peace – and ‘Antifa’.

Welcome to Trump country: ‘We’re the silent majority’
James Hopkins and friend | Mary Fitzgerald. CC BY-NC 4.0. Some rights reserved
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“The major thing I like about Trump is his fight against human trafficking,” James Hopkins told me as we waited for the Trump road rally to drive by in Lawrenceberg, Kentucky.

“Trump’s organisation has put together a great deal of money and time and effort into combatting this issue, and that speaks to me tremendously, because I have children.”

James and his friends had fixed their Trump/Pence flag to a fishing rod, and were planning to wave it at the long convoy of trucks and SUVs due to pass the bungalow minutes later, honking horns and waving MAGA flags.