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Hey. Let’s talk real fast about the white power video Trump shared, white supremacy as an existential threat, and the relationship between avowed racists and racists in denial about their racism.
In other words, let’s talk about what’s wrong with America.
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In other words, let’s talk about what’s wrong with America.
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For starters, I doubt Donald Trump actually watches the golf cart video where someone said “white power.” Chances are he saw a video purported to endorse him or half heartedly watched it.
The fact that he shared a video like this tells us everything we need to know.
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The fact that he shared a video like this tells us everything we need to know.
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If you got Trump alone and in confidence, I almost guarantee he’d say he wasn’t actually racist. People like him deny it while claiming they’re “realists,” which is a deflection that centers their racist worldview as reality.
There’s a LARGE swathe of Americans like this.
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There’s a LARGE swathe of Americans like this.
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Americans like Trump who believe they aren’t racists while holding explicitly white supremacist beliefs that people of color are naturally inferior to whites, don’t think they’re prejudiced.
They think they understand a truth others won’t admit.
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They think they understand a truth others won’t admit.
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These delusional white supremacists want an America like pre-Civil Rights America where white supremacy was quietly enforced by laws, intimidation, mass culture, and politics without oppressed people being heard or feeling safe in speaking out.
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The more that “consensus” by intimidation falls apart, the more open these white supremacists have become about their prejudice. But, like Trump, they still couch their prejudice in “realism” versus “racism.”
This is the essence of Trumpism and MAGA.
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This is the essence of Trumpism and MAGA.
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The more trouble white supremacy is in the more likely these racist “realists” are to embrace anti-democratic actions and the more likely they are to work alongside explicitly racist bodies like Neo-Nazis, KKK, and white terrorists.
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This cycle of paranoia, fear, and realization of lost power has brought “realists” like Republicans, closer to these explicitly racist white supremacists.
Where they meet? Trumpism.
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Where they meet? Trumpism.
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Trumpism is the border between “respectable realists” who are in denial about their white supremacist views and people who actively embrace white supremacy.
The GOP has played this game for decades. It was always going to get here and lead to this madness.
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The GOP has played this game for decades. It was always going to get here and lead to this madness.
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Trump is white supremacy thought personified, but he still believes it isn’t racism but realism.
The thin line between those is the thin line between hidden racism in laws, powers, and politics and overt, fascistic racial discrimination and aggression.
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The thin line between those is the thin line between hidden racism in laws, powers, and politics and overt, fascistic racial discrimination and aggression.
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The point is that Trump isn’t the disease, but a symptom.
America has always been infected with fascistic white supremacy. At times it is overt, other times it is hidden behind a smiling veneer.
We’re watching a white supremacist fascist movement right now. Period.
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America has always been infected with fascistic white supremacy. At times it is overt, other times it is hidden behind a smiling veneer.
We’re watching a white supremacist fascist movement right now. Period.
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People who claim they’re not racist but realists are as insidious and often as dangerous or more dangerous than their Neo-Nazi allies.
It’s not just the fascists who call themselves fascists you have to look out for, but also the fascists who are in denial.
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It’s not just the fascists who call themselves fascists you have to look out for, but also the fascists who are in denial.
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