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Mormons have a long memory when it comes to religious persecution, so Trump's attitude towards banning Muslims makes many of them wary.

Fun fact: A hundred or so years ago, if you were entering the US, you had to fill out a form that asked, amongst other more usual pieces of information, if you were a polygamist or an anarchist. People have been arguing about marriage in US courts for a very long time, and often thanks to Mormons (see: the book Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation). Anarchism was the "radical Islam" of it's day, with anarchists performing a large number of terrorist attacks in the US and Europe, including killing multiple heads of states (including US president William McKinley in 1901), and the Wall Street bombing in 1920, then the deadliest act of terrorism on US soil, which killed 38 people and one horse.