Eddie Glaude, the prolific author and Princeton University professor (and my old sparring partner at MSNBC) recently sparked a conversation on the left over the degree to which Donald Trump’s reelection reflects poorly on the voters who restored him to power.
“There’s this sense that whiteness is under threat,” he said in a recent appearance that has generated much attention. The country’s changing demography — as represented by “racially ambiguous children on Cheerio’s commercials” that he imagines confound a particular sort of voter — has, he says, condemned a critical mass of Americans to paranoia and chronic self-doubt. That’s his explanation for the Trump phenomenon.
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