I am vermin, a pestiferous being to be eradicated, exterminated, extinguished. For you see, to call someone “vermin” is to embrace the belief of the danger vermin poses to the body.

Pesticide is the only appropriate response to pestilence.

As far as former president and Republican front-runner Donald Trump is concerned, I am not some abstract rhetorical being. I am vermin.

During a two-hour speech on Veterans Day, Trump laid out a vision for an America that has much in common with a genocidal history of annihilating supposed vermin such as me.

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