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It is sickening to see how much they’ve been persecuted by one political party, and how feckless the other political party has been about standing up for their rights.

Impeached twice and a convicted felon who faces more trials, Trump has said that he, and by extension his loyalists, have been persecuted by a “wacko” and unfair state.

Many of Rogan’s questions and comments fed the Trumpian narrative that he’s been unfairly persecuted by his enemies, the big disrupter who the “establishment” and the “deep state” fears and are trying to take down.

Ulster Protestants have frequently been compared to the white community in apartheid South Africa, but in their glory days they preferred to see themselves as the righteous but persecuted Hebrews of the Old Testament, a theme elaborated in dozens of fire-breathing sermons.

During Kenyatta’s second term, Ruto, then deputy president himself, complained of being sidelined and persecuted.