“Trump’s political career began in advocacy of birtherism. But long before that, he had made his worldview clear.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.comTagged: Trump, Birtherism, Origins of Trump, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Magazine
“Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if they work twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive: Work half as hard as black people, and even more is possible”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.comTagged: Trump, Obama vs. Trump, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Magazine, TheAtlantic.com
“Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.comTagged: Trump Administration, President Trump, Racism In America, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Magazine
“Asserting that Trump’s rise was primarily powered by cultural resentment and economic reversal has become de rigueur among white pundits and thought leaders. But evidence for this is, at best, mixed.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.comTagged: Trump Administration, President Trump, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Magazine, TheAtlantic.com
“White Americans elected an orcish reality-TV star who insists on taking his intelligence briefings in picture-book form.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.comTagged: Trump Administration, President Trump, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Magazine, TheAtlantic.com