“The People That Came In”

The real meaning behind the Springfield slurs

It wasn’t an accident and it wasn’t a joke.

Though it may not seem so, it’s been less than a week since Trump’s disastrous debate performance, during which he briefly but memorably claimed that Haitians (“the people that came in”) were stealing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.

Since then Springfield has been the victim of bomb threats and P…