From Joy Reed's show this AM. Trump is all about racism.

A few days after Duke’s strong showing, [in LA in 1990, Duke got 43% of the vote] the Queens-born businessman Donald Trump appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live.

“It’s anger. I mean, that’s an anger vote. People are angry about what’s happened. People are angry about the jobs. If you look at Louisiana, they’re really in deep trouble,” Trump told King.

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What I found was that Trump embodied his supporters’ most profound beliefs—combining an insistence that discriminatory policies were necessary with vehement denials that his policies would discriminate and absolute outrage that the question would even be asked.

It was not just Trump’s supporters who were in denial about what they were voting for, but Americans across the political spectrum, who, as had been the case with those who had backed Duke, searched desperately for any alternative explanation—outsourcing, anti-Washington anger, economic anxiety—to the one staring them in the face. The frequent postelection media expeditions to Trump country to see whether the fever has broken, or whether Trump’s most ardent supporters have changed their minds, are a direct outgrowth of this mistake. These supporters will not change their minds, because this is what they always wanted: a president who embodies the rage they feel toward those they hate and fear, while reassuring them that that rage is nothing to be ashamed of.



It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.

had racism been toxic to the American electorate, Trump’s candidacy would not have been viable.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-nationalists-delusion/546356/

[He also explains why the media will not be honest about it. Trump voters are outright racist but don't think they are so if the media calls them racist, it will just make them mad. Oh, and they don't care about the wall or taxes or health care. They care about the muslim ban and restricting the rights of black voters.]