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Why Donald Trump's presidency is first and foremost about being white
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- Title
- The First White President
- Authors
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Published
- Oct 20 2017
- Word count
- 8256 words
The news is always too naive about Trump. Everything he does is treated in good faith even though none of it has been, all the way back to announcing his campaign. The Republican base is white people who love money more than anything else and white people who hate nonwhite people more than anything else. It's really telling that the areas that vote for him the most are the areas with the fewest nonwhite people. They're so afraid of the "other" despite having hardly interacted with them in their lives, but the people who live in more diverse areas get along just fine.
Full credit to @dubteedub for the article. It's surprising how prevalent identity politics remains and how it's ironically more so among conservatives than many similarly demonized left-wing groups.