Sunday, July 21, 2019

"Trump Has Galvanised His White People for Bigotry"

"The notion that there are two main political parties in the US–one on the centre left, the other on the centre right–no longer holds. For the parties are increasingly defined by their racial politics. Democrats are multiracial multiculturalists. Republicans are the white party."

Nell Irvin Painter at The Guardian argues that "anti-racists must now act on a history of their own, one sufficiently powerful to defeat Trumpism, as it defeated slavery, segregation and disfranchisement."

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