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The social construction of ‘race’: Placing Trump’s white nationalism in context
Donald Trump has used racism, xenophobia, and white nationalism as the cornerstones of his relentless and divisive march to the White House. He has played off and extended people’s fears of the “other,” and along the way, has brought the United States to the point of existential crisis for his own benefit.
But Donald Trump did not invent the terms of the crisis. He has merely built upon the long, tragic, and deadly trajectory of demagogues, tyrants, oligarchs, and authoritarian...