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Jason Wilson in Milwaukee

Barrage of hate from far-right Trumpists to Sikh prayer at Republican convention

A woman prays in green headscarf
Harmeet Dhillon gives a benediction at the Republican national convention in Milwaukee on Monday. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

A toxic, racist, far-right response to Harmeet Dhillon’s Monday-night Sikh prayer at the Republican national convention is just one sign of the difficulties Donald Trump and Republicans have in selling a more diverse version of Trumpism to the party’s base.

Social media posts following Dhillon’s prayer indicated that some far-right Trumpists had been polarized by the sight of a non-Christian form of religious devotion on the convention stage in Milwaukee.

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