President Donald Trump and his defenders in conservative media have identified the real group endangered by rising racial tensions during his presidency.
It’s not undocumented immigrants or people of color targeted by his harsh and sometimes openly racist rhetoric. It’s the president and his supporters themselves who are being unfairly accused of racism by critics recoiling from his words. …
The attempt from the president and his allies to invert the debate over his approach to race captures one of the pillars of his reelection message heading into 2020. They have signaled that, as in 2016, he intends to portray his overwhelmingly white, heavily blue-collar and nonurban coalition as the real victims in American society. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic