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If climate change does, in fact, spark mass migrations, then China’s untrammeled nationalism, with its implicit hostility to the rights of refugees, might prove more acceptable to a future era than Washington’s dream of international cooperation that has already begun to sink from sight in the era of Donald Trump’s “great wall.”

As philosopher Jason Stanley explained to me in a recent conversation here at Salon, “Donald Trump has made explicit xenophobia acceptable, and explicit racism more acceptable. But it is still the case that in America you need some code words for racism.”

"Using phrases that aren't particularly well hidden seem to be more acceptable because the threat seems to loom larger — at least that's the perception — in a way that it might not have been in the 80s, for example."

As such, they often carry two meanings, the first being more acceptable and broadly understood, while the other, problematic meaning is meant to only to be understood by the speaker's intended audience.

Donald Trump has made explicit xenophobia acceptable, and explicit racism more acceptable.