We’re Witnessing History: The Extreme Right Just Seized Control of the GOP [View all]

[kpete]

It is not an overstatement to say that Bannon is the most prominent mainstreamer of white nationalism in the country today. And now he is running Trump’s campaign.

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We sit at a historical pivot point – at the end of the presidency of our nation’s first Black president and on the precipice of the likely presidency of our nation’s first woman president. White nationalism is about maintaining white supremacy; it is also, and equally, about maintaining male supremacy. The patriarchy and white power have always coexisted, reinforcing each other in a recursive loop to uphold the dominance of white males in America.

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The Republican Party has spent decades mastering the exploitation of fear and bigotry, while pretending they weren’t. They winked at white nationalists, even as they publicly disavowed them – and now those restless chickens are coming home to roost.

Trump is not an anomaly; he was an inevitability.

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