A decade ago, when Trump won the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even 01/12/26 01:14 PM
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as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
How many times have I argued that Trump was using white identity politics to consolidate power only to be told by the pundit class and “objective” journalists that the failing of the left was its continuous embrace of identity politics while they were completely blind to whiteness as an identity?
Everything that’s happening, I and others named and predicted but it took Trump being explicitly pro-white and not just anti-Black and POC for those who are supposed to help us understand society to get it?? Like, I wrote it right here
A decade ago, when Trump won the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even