The First White President

Link - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/

5 Main Points In The Article

1. It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. Trump inaugurated his campaign by casting himself as the defender of white maidenhood against Mexican “rapists,” only to be later alleged by multiple accusers, and by his own proud words, to be a sexual violator himself. White supremacy has always had a perverse sexual tint

2. Donald Trump is not the product of white supremacy so much as the product of a backlash against contempt for white working-class people.

3. Part of Trump’s dominance among whites resulted from his running as a Republican, the party that has long cultivated white voters.

4. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters,” Trump bragged in January 2016. - WOWW (Trump, more than any other politician, understood the valence of the bloody heirloom and the great power in not being a nigger.)

5. The first white president in American history is also the most dangerous president—and he is made more dangerous still by the fact that those charged with analyzing him cannot name his essential nature, because they too are implicated in it. The American tragedy now being wrought is larger than most imagine and will not end with Trump.

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