I do not believe that I ever related this story on DU:

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45. Reagan was white backlash against

the civil rights progress of the 60s and 70s.

Trump was white backlash against the presidency of a Black American.

Both of those Republican political movements set the nation on a self destructive course.

I am White. I remember telling a Black friend back in the 90s that Black Americans were the future of democracy in the US and that they would be the ones to save it from self-destruction. At first she was offended and said that Blacks do not owe it to anyone to save a country that had once enslaved them. But she understood when I explained that, while Whites took democracy for granted as a privilege and lost sight of its values, I thought that those values were especially significant to Blacks because they had always been denied the full rights of democracy. So, as Blacks fight for their rights, they are also fighting for the values of democracy that Whites have lost sight of due to racism. Then she agreed with me.