Hatemongering

NOWADAYS, nobody openly admits to being a racist. Even the racists, who were once proud of their attitude, deny it. Of course, it could be argued that anyone who arbitrarily categorizes people by skin color, rather  then seeing skin pigmentation as a continuum, is a racist, whether or not she values different races differently. Donald Trump's words and actions throughout his divisive presidency clearly reveal him to be a racist as do the testimonials of many who know him well, despite his denials and the denials of his supporters. In her new book "Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda" journalist and author Jean Guerrero succinctly describes how Stephen Miller, perhaps Trump's favorite adviser, who himself is a lifelong racist and white supremacist and nationalist, worked his way up through the Trump administration via his mentor Steve Bannon, to become the chief architect of Trump's anti immigrant white populist policies. Millions have seen Miller on television, although he tends to lay relatively low, and is not often in the spotlight, and many have noted his youth. he grew up in southern California in the nineteen nineties, amid a culture virulently opposed to immigration across the southern border, and he absorbed and embrace ambient anti-Latino attitudes. White America is under attack by dark skinned people. the white race is in jeopardy of being eliminated, overrun by brown people. Good American values  are those of the white majority, and must be preserved. This brand of racism is well known. Miller was not the actual originator of the policy of separating illegal immigration children from their parents and locking them in cages and deporting parents without their children, an ICE agent was, but Miller quickly embraced the idea, and  Trump was easily brought on board. When a federal judge halted the cruel practice, both Miller and Trump were livid, claiming that Americans would die as a result of the court ruling. They both wanted to resume the policy, and still do. The racism of the Trump movement is a tragedy to which the Black Lives Movement is to some degree a direct response. As the historiography of the Trump era begins to be written, this terrible aspect of Trump, his associates, and his supporters will be brought to light, as it is already being done by primary source people and documents, from people who know the president well. There will be more to come, much more, of the history writing, and it is to be hoped, not the Trump administration.