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In Ban on Migrants, Trump Supporters See a Promise Kept

“Mr. Trump goes out of his way to offend nearly everything the left values,” said Philip E. Tetlock, a political psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “Superforecasting.” “He even takes glee in it.”

.. It also may serve his purposes, if an angry left riles up the right, heightening the sense of battle on both sides — and endearing him to his supporters even more.

.. “These people in Manhattan, they don’t know what’s going on in the outer boroughs,” he said. “These immigrants, they don’t come to 86th Street; they come to Port Richmond Avenue on Staten Island.” He added that Manhattanites are “not going to be affected. We are the ones that feel it.”