Buried beneath the blustery bravado of Donald Trump’s openly racist attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color were clear signs of electoral anxiety. Trump insists he is producing great results for the country, especially on the economy. And yet, at the price of provoking great backlash, he moved in an […] Read more »
Trump didn’t introduce racism to conservative politics — but he’s cultivated and amplified it
There’s nothing new in American politics about the racial hostility President Trump has demonstrated this week. … In recent years, though, it’s been rare to see an elected official as prominent as the president of the United States make as overt an appeal to racial politics as Trump’s in recent […] Read more »
What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
… I’ve spent much of the past four years trying to illuminate the historical and ideological antecedents to Donald Trump, to show how America got to this point. So I want to be very clear about what the country saw last night, as an American president incited a chant of […] Read more »
Growing share of Republicans say U.S. risks losing its identity if it is too open to foreigners
A majority of Americans (62%) continue to say the country’s openness to people from around the world is “essential to who we are as a nation.” But the share expressing this view is 6 percentage points lower than it was in September – a result of a shift in opinion […] Read more »
With Latest Nativist Rhetoric, Trump Takes America Back To Where It Came From
With his latest round of attacks on four first-year members of Congress who are women of color, President Trump has once again touched the raw nerve of racism in American life. He has also tapped into one of the oldest strains in our politics — the fear and vilification of […] Read more »
Republicans represent almost none of the places most immigrants live
President Donald Trump’s openly racist and xenophobic attacks on four Democratic House women of color, like his threatened immigration enforcement raids in major cities and the sweeping proposed new restrictions on asylum seekers that he announced Monday, underscores his transformation of the Republican Party into a coalition centered on the […] Read more »