For Trump's Supporters, Admitting His Racism Would Mean Admitting an Uncomfortable Truth About

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For Trump’s Supporters, Admitting His Racism Would Mean Admitting an Uncomfortable Truth About Themselves


The week after Donald Trump launched his racist attack on U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, which came on the heels of his racist attacks on four nonwhite Democratic members of Congress, The News & Observer gave resident MAGA apologist J. Peder Zane ink to argue that the president and his Republican Party are not, in fact, racist, but rather the victims of a “false narrative” painted by Democrats, who are the real racists.

While Trump may have been “insensitive” in calling a mostly black congressional district with a median income above the national average “a disgusting rat- and rodent-infested mess,” Zane tells us, a “fair-minded person, while hoping that the president would be more precise, should see that he is not a racist.”

Four days later, a Trump-loving white-nationalist murdered twenty people in an El Paso Walmart after posting a manifesto explaining—in language that uncannily mirrored Trump’s immigration rhetoric—that he was fighting an ”invasion.”

Funny how the racists think Trump is one of them.

Lots of papers have third-tier hacks like Zane, men (always men) who crib their sophomoric understanding of U.S. history from low-rent hucksters like Dinesh D’Souza and regurgitate the outrage du jour from the Fox News/talk-radio set. These columns tend to land somewhere between intellectually vapid and irresponsibly dishonest; papers publish them as a fig leaf to the MAGA crowd, an effort to assure them that they’re not part of the Liberal Media.

Read more: https://indyweek.com/news/soapboxer/trump-supporters-admitting-racism-uncomfortable-truth/

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1. I don't know that I'd ever seen the Atwater quote

That explains the whole thing.