White American voters put Mississippi’s James Eastland in office, a Trump; Philadelphia’s Frank Rizzo was one too; South Carolina’s “Pitch Fork Ben” Tillman was a Trump, long before Donald Trump was; Alaska’s Sarah Palin was a Trump, still is. Ronald Reagan, who the mainstream media once mocked and said was a fringe candidate and would never win the White House, was a stone cold Trump, to name a few. United States politics is littered with White right-wing reactionaries, like Trump, in public office.
The liberal-moderate wing of the U.S. establishment still tries to argue that blatant White racism is—excluding the current Trump interlude—on the fringes of mainstream White America. It is not. It is where it has always been. And that is everywhere.
In contrast, the 2016 overwhelming African American vote against Trump and against right wing reaction, and the steadfast African American opposition to Trump and to right wing reaction since he took office both proclaim, emphatically, the national Black community has absolutely no illusions about where right wing reaction is in the U.S.A.
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