Like a number of recent mass shootings, the one in El Paso on Saturday came with a manifesto. … In the El Paso manifesto, the anti-immigrant rhetoric is thoroughly ensconced in other white power ideas. To be sure, mass attackers today have a new set of coded phrases, such as […] Read more »
There are no lone wolves
There are no lone wolves. A mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso on Saturday was allegedly perpetrated by a young, white male, according to police, who appears to have posted a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto online minutes before the attack, declaring the need to fight the “Hispanic invasion of […] Read more »
Conservatives Are Hiding Their ‘Loathing’ Behind Our Flag
The Republican Party under Donald Trump has devolved into a populist cult of personality. But Mr. Trump won’t be president forever. Can the cult persist without its personality? Does Trumpist nationalism contain a kernel of coherent ideology that can outlast the Trump presidency? At a recent conference in Washington, a […] Read more »
More voters think Donald Trump is a racist than thought George Wallace was in 1968
A Quinnipiac University poll out this week shows that a majority (51%) of voters believe that President Donald Trump is a racist. Forty-five percent say that he is not. To opponents of the President, this poll may not be surprising. But think about it for a second. This isn’t just […] Read more »
Republicans don’t think Trump’s tweets are racist. That fits a long American history of denying racism.
During Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency, there has been an ongoing debate about whether Trump’s words and even the president himself should be called “racist.” … To understand this debate about Trump and racism, it’s important to put it in historical perspective. First, it is but one episode in a […] Read more »
Blue-collar white women are turning on Trump
The other day, Ron Brownstein served up a comprehensive, detailed analysis that suggested President Trump’s base may be fracturing. In particular, Brownstein looked at an array of data that suggests blue-collar white women may be turning on Trump. Fresh numbers from a new Quinnipiac poll, provided to this blog, underscore […] Read more »