That was a very good article, albeit a long one. I am particularly interested in the phenomenon of people's memory of their own actions changing over time (of course the possibility of deliberately lying instead of selective memory is right there too). It would be interesting to interview people taped and photographed in public screaming at little kids outside of schools and at lunch counters during those troubled times, to see if they even admit to being present, much less the things they did and said. Perhaps they all had racist evil twins that portrayed them in a bad light? It seems that all those evil twins have experienced a resurrection and are now being filmed in public again - but the instant backlash of their taped behavior is really freaking them out. How tragic to lose one's job over hate crimes and racism - there was never supposed to be any consequences for a white man!

Have you noticed that Trump seems to be doing this memory twisting at an accelerated rate? Its one thing to say that you never said what you said a few decades ago, its quite another to claim you never said what you said a couple months, days or hours ago! Its very weird that his base is eagerly willing to change their minds and memories along with his instructions - straight out of Orwell's 1984. It is fascinating how the people willing to do this are the ones most vocally against removing Civil War monuments because we MUST "preserve our history"! And yet they are happy to ignore the history that they are participating in at this moment - can watch Trump say something on TV one hour, and the next hour claim he never said it. What bizarre times we live in.

Trump has legitimized the right wing bigots and white supremest. They now feel empowered to openly come out in the open. Ironically this may have been caused by the election of president Obama. It's a sad statement of American values. It also shows a bigoted element of the evangelical group.