"As Long as the President Believes Racist Demagoguery Plays to His Advantage, He Will Not Retreat From It, and Neither Will His Most Loyal Acolytes"

"Perhaps Trump would have pursued the same agenda, with the same abandon, had Charlottesville never occurred. Yet the incident and its aftermath ratified his calculation that his base would fervently defend any expression of bigotry against people of color. Trump's base is not outraged by his mistreatment of religious and ethnic minorities, but by the suggestion that such mistreatment is motivated by prejudice."

Adam Serwer at The Atlantic argues that "The White Nationalists Are Winning."