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Heidi Stevens: Ignore Trump's racist tweets and stay where you are, congresswomen. You're making America great.

CHICAGO - Donald Trump got elected by criticizing America.

His campaign slogan told us over and over, in speech after speech, on hat after hat, we were no longer great.

His inaugural address referenced poverty, gangs, drugs, rusted-out factories, lousy schools and American carnage.

"For many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry," he said. "Subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.

"We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to

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