"Lays Bare the Logic of His Appeal"

"In the closing weeks of the campaign, the president has promised a nonexistent tax cut to the middle class after two years in which unified Republican control of government produced only a windfall for the rich; he has spread falsehoods about a caravan of refugees traveling through Central America; he has invented wholesale a fiction about anti-immigrant riots in California to justify his policies; and his administration is considering revoking federal recognition of the existence of trans people. This is of a piece with the Trump administration's general policy agenda, which has involved austerity for the working class and the poor and generosity to the wealthy or connected. Trump's nativism, and the Republican Party's traditional hostility to government intervention on behalf of the poor, have had a happier marriage than some might have expected."

Adam Serwer at The Atlantic argues that "Trumpism Is 'Identity Politics' for White People."

And he adds that "America's Problem Isn't Tribalism--It's Racism."