Republicans are Racist. Now What?
Trump’s strategy of inflaming racial tensions to win elections is effective but can be readily countered by the exact same tactics that pre-Trump Republicans used against Democrats. Oceans of digital ink have been spilled by agonizing liberals in trying to decide if Trump supporters are racist and, if so, to what degree. As a minority raised in the South, I believe that most Trump supporters are definitely racist, though they wouldn’t consider themselves such, are only shallowly racist, and that racism only makes up a small part of their overall identities and experiences. Most of them are actually friendly with some minorities and most wouldn’t, in real life, intentionally treat a non-white person differently than a white person. That said, they do express racist sentiments, have very little sympathy for situations that only affect minorities, and are generally characterized by a perpetual victim mentality that makes it easy for them to justify doing and saying anything because t...