Speaking about the “Muslim ban” the president tried to impose, “The Trews” host Russell Brand says the “grotesqueness” of Donald Trump “reveals once and for all what has long been concealed: that if you demarcate certain people as bomb-able, torture-able, religious [and] therefore irrational and inferior, you will ultimately end up with these kinds of populist measures.”

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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