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As white nationalist slogans, images, and memes become normalized, can we go back?

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism about the prevalence of racism in modern political discourse.

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Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
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