… 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 »
A new poll shows why Trump attacked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar — and why it could get even uglier
Regardless of whether you think it was racist for President Trump to urge four nonwhite (and mostly non-immigrant) Democratic freshman congresswomen to “go back” to their countries, the practical effect is clear: He’s pitting himself against these minority women to help him win reelection in 2020, no matter how ugly […] Read more »
When Trump attacks, the base turns out – for both parties
President Donald Trump’s attacks on the four Democratic congresswomen known as the “squad” are a strange way to try to win reelection. … Many of Trump’s core supporters undoubtedly agree with his characterization of the “squad” of four Democratic progressive freshman congresswomen, and making those congresswomen the face of the […] Read more »
Latinos strongly reject racist attitudes and language
President Donald Trump’s incendiary language over the weekend triggered yet another media and public firestorm on the issue of race. His attacks targeting four non-white congresswomen and telling them to go back to their “home countries” led critics, including some prominent Republican observers, to call upon the president to retract […] Read more »
Polls show sour views of race relations in Trump’s America
Even before President Donald Trump’s racist tweets toward four Democratic congresswomen of color, Americans considered race relations in the United States to be generally bad — and said that Trump has been making them worse. On Sunday, Trump tweeted that the congresswomen should go back to the “broken and crime […] Read more »
Once Trump Talked About ‘American Carnage.’ Now He Says Critics Should Leave.
America stinks. At least that’s what Donald J. Trump seemed to be saying before becoming president. He did not believe in “American exceptionalism,” he said, because America was not exceptional. Instead, it was a “laughingstock” that was no better than Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia. By promising to make America great […] Read more »