It’s A White Thing

Here’s the hard truth of the last eight years: America leans at least as much toward white nationalism as it does toward democracy (and that’s being optimistic). Nobody says it out loud, on either side, which is obscuring the real shape of Showdown 2024.

— “The force propping up Trump that we still don’t talk about,” Erin Aubry Kaplan in the L.A. Times

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