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White Supremacy & the Trump Administration

Image: After Trump urged the Proud Boys to “Stand back and stand by”, the extremist group changed their logo and began selling apparel quoting Trump.

See also Cross Cultural Solidarity’s separate pages covering The Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville and the The January 6 Capitol Insurrection.

Overviews

The Atlantic: An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry: His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.

Lynn Burnett: Donald Trump’s Deep White Supremacist Roots: From His Father’s Klan Membership to the Klan Supporting His Presidency.

Just Security: American Autocracy Threat Tracker: A Comprehensive Catalog Based on Donald Trump and His Associates’ Plans, Promises, and Propositions.

German Lopez: Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020.

Jamiles Lartey: Racism and Donald Trump: a common thread throughout his career and life.

The New York Times: What Have We Lost?

The White Supremacy of Donald Trump’s Father

Philip Bump: In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens.

Lynn Burnett: Donald Trump’s Deep White Supremacist Roots: From His Father’s Klan Membership to the Klan Supporting His Presidency.

Petula Dvorak: ‘Racial Hate’: A famed folk singer, Trump’s dad and angry lyrics at a Tulsa landmark.

Justin Wm. Moyer: The unbelievable story of why Woody Guthrie hated Donald Trump’s dad.

Mike Pearl: All the Evidence We Could Find About Fred Trump’s Alleged Involvement with the KKK: Newspaper clips obtained by VICE suggest the Republican frontrunner’s father may have worn the robe and hood of a Klansman in 1927.

Trump’s Racist Real Estate Practices

Steve Eder and Jonathan Mahler: ‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias.

By Michael Kranish & Robert O’Harrow Jr.: Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it.

Thomas J. Sugrue: The Big Picture: America’s Real Estate Developer in Chief.

Racism in Trump’s Casino Business

Nick Paumgarten: The Death and Life of Atlantic City.

Joseph Tanfani: Trump was once so involved in trying to block an Indian casino that he secretly approved attack ads.

UPI archives: Trump Plaza loses appeal of discrimination penalty.

Trump’s Attacks on The Central Park 5

Michael Brice-Saddler and Colby Itkowitz: Trump still won’t apologize to the Central Park Five. Here’s what he said at the time.

Oliver Laughland: Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue.

Jan Ransom: Trump Will Not Apologize for Calling for Death Penalty Over Central Park Five: “You have people on both sides of that,” the president said when asked about the wrongly convicted defendants.

Trump’s Promotion of Birther Conspiracies

Jess Henig: Born in the U.S.A.: The truth about Obama’s birth certificate.

German Lopez: Trump is still reportedly pushing his racist “birther” conspiracy theory about Obama.

Susan Pearson: Birth certificates have always been a weapon for white supremacists: Policing the color line through vital documents.

Rachel E. Rosenbloom: There’s no question about Harris’s citizenship. So why is Trump questioning it? The assumption that only White Americans are citizens drives the campaign to discredit Kamala Harris.

Trump’s “Muslim Ban”

The ACLU: The Enduring Harm of Trump’s Muslim Ban.

Associated Press: Trump vows to expand Muslim ban and bar Gaza refugees if he wins presidency: Former president in speech in Iowa says he would immediately begin ‘ideological screening’ for all immigrants.

The Guardian: Donald Trump’s Muslim ban plan plunges Republican party into chaos.

Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Racism

See also Cross Cultural Solidarity’s resource collection: The U.S.-Mexico Border During the Trump Era.

Russell Contreras: The racist history of Trump’s “poisoning the blood”.

Josh Dawsey: Trump derides protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries.

Adam Gabbatt: Donald Trump says he ‘will win Latino vote’ despite calling Mexicans ‘rapists’.

Carly Goodman: John Tanton has died. He made America less open to immigrants — and more open to Trump: The nativist helped make anti-immigrant politics mainstream.

Ja’han Jones: Trump and Musk have regaled the right with racist junk science: The former president’s tirade about “sick” immigrants bringing disease into the country speaks to the disturbing popularity of racist pseudoscience within the conservative movement.

Matthew Loh: Trump baselessly claims Haitian immigrants entering the US ‘probably have AIDS’ and letting them come in ‘is like a death wish’.

Jemilat Nasiru: ‘They never return to their huts’ — Trump ‘mocks’ Nigerians in US.

Amber Phillips: ‘They’re rapists.’ President Trump’s campaign launch speech two years later, annotated.

Janell Ross: Alicia Machado, the woman Trump called Miss Housekeeping, is ready to vote against Donald Trump.

The Washington Post: Trump spreads violent rhetoric by suggesting migrants should fight for sport.

Zachary B. Wolf: Trump explains his militaristic plan to deport 15-20 million people.

Carl A. Zimring: The dirty (and racist) origins of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant slur: How the connection between race and waste shapes not only slurs but policy and economics.

White Supremacist Extremists Back Trump’s 2016 Campaign

Christina Coleburn: Donald Trump on Racist Endorsement: ‘I Don’t Know Anything About David Duke’: In an interview Sunday morning, Trump would not condemn former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke’s support for his presidential campaign.

Eliza Collins: David Duke: Voting against Trump is ‘treason to your heritage’.

Camila Domonoske:

David Neiwert & Sarah Posner: Meet the Horde of Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and Other Extremist Leaders Endorsing Donald Trump: The Republican nominee for president has not disavowed any of them.

Voter Disenfranchisement in Trump’s 2016 Campaign

Ari Berman: Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump… and possibly handed him the whole election.

Brennan Center for Justice: Background on Trump’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission: For years, exaggerated claims of fraud have been used to justify unwarranted restrictions on voting access.

Channel 4 News: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016.

CNN: Trump campaign microtargeted Black Americans disproportionally ‘to deter’ them from voting in 2016 election.

Jessica Guynn: Trump used Facebook to suppress the Black vote in battleground states during 2016 election, report says.

Dan Sabbagh: Trump 2016 campaign ‘targeted 3.5m black Americans to deter them from voting’: Secret effort allegedly focused on 16 swing states, several narrowly won by Trump after the black Democrat vote collapsed.

White Supremacy in the Trump Administration

Steve Bannon

Alex Amend and Jonathon Morgan: Breitbart Under Bannon: Breitbart’s Comment Section Reflects Alt-Right, Anti-Semitic Language.

Brandon W. Hawk: Why far-right nationalists like Steve Bannon have embraced a Russian ideologue: And how his medieval fantasies distort history for his cause.

Peter Maass: Birth of a Radical: White Fear in the White House: Young Bannon Disciple Julia Hahn Is a Case Study in Extremism.

Andrea Mammone: Steve Bannon claims to be the mastermind of European nationalism. Don’t believe the hype.

Sebastian Gorka

Rachel Dobkin: Trump Ally Calling Kamala Harris ‘Colored’ Sparks Backlash.

David A. Graham: Sebastian Gorka and the White House’s Questionable Vetting: A report in The Forward links Trump’s terrorism adviser to a Nazi-linked Hungarian fraternal group.

NBC: Sebastian Gorka Made Nazi-Linked Vitezi Rend ‘Proud’ by Wearing Its Medal.

Tina Nguyen: Far-Right Trump Adviser Tied to Anti-Semitic Paramilitary Group.

Jared Kushner

Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou & Jennifer Jacobs: Jared Kushner Says African-Americans Must ‘Want to Be Successful’.

Alec MacGillis: The Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville’: Tenants in more than a dozen Baltimore-area rental complexes complain about a property owner who they say leaves their homes in disrepair, humiliates late-paying renters and often sues them when they try to move out. Few of them know that their landlord is the president’s son-in-law.

Stephen Miller

Kathleen Belew: Stephen Miller And White Supremacy 

Jonathan Blitzer: How Stephen Miller Manipulates Donald Trump to Further His Immigration Obsession.  Donald Trump’s senior adviser has been the true driving force behind this Administration’s racist agenda. How far will he go?

Lulu Garcia-Navarro: Stephen Miller And ‘The Camp Of The Saints,’ A White Nationalist Reference.

Jean Guerrero: Stephen Miller’s Dystopian America: Language is a tool for shaping minds, and Miller knows how to weaponize it.

Jean Guerrero: Border Patrol Pulls Vid Reflecting How Stephen Miller Helped Make Homeland Security a Race War Propaganda Shop: The Border Patrol video includes false and misleading headlines and a fictionalized murder set to horror-movie music.

Andy Kroll: Internal Emails Reveal How Stephen Miller Leads an Extremist Network to Push Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda.

Christopher Mathias: Jewish Groups Demand Stephen Miller Resign From White House.

Beth Reinhard & Josh Dawsey: How a Trump-allied group fighting ‘anti-white bigotry’ beats Biden in court: America First Legal was founded last year by Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s immigrant family separation policy.

The Southern Poverty Law Center: Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails.

Jeff Sessions

Wesley Lowery: Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing [Jeff] Sessions’s 1986 federal nomination.

Adam Serwer:

Thomas J. Sugrue: Jeff Sessions’ Other Civil Rights Problem.

Trump’s Family Separation Policy

Erica Bryant: Children Are Still Being Separated from Their Families at the Border.

Piper French: At least 5,000 families were forcibly separated during the Trump administration. The work of reunifying them is painfully incomplete.

Ted Hesson & Nathan Layne: Trump refuses to rule out new migrant family separations.

NPR: How the Trump White House misled the world about its family separation policy.

SPLC: Family separation – a timeline.

Trump’s Racist Rhetoric

Russ Bynum: At RNC, GOP echoes racial code of Nixon’s 1968 campaign.

Jonathan Capehart: Trump’s flirtation with the n-word cannot be ignored.

Robert Costa & Philip Rucker: Trump’s push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him.

Jose A. Del Real: With ‘kung flu,’ ‘thugs,’ and ‘our heritage,’ Trump leans on racial grievance as he reaches for a campaign reset.

Lawrence B. Glickman: Why President Trump used lynching as a metaphor: The long history of politicians claiming to be victims of lynching and racial violence.

Bonnie Honig: What White Supremacists Want: Trump’s paternalistic language of care draws an exceptional circle around whites only.

Tamara Keith: President Trump Issues Divisive Statement On Race At Rose Garden Address.

Scott Laderman: How Richard Nixon captured white rage — and laid the groundwork for Donald Trump.

Derek Litvak: President Trump has embraced yet another white-supremacist talking point: Why Trump and white supremacists care about South African land reform.

Timothy J. Lombardo: Why white blue-collar voters love President Trump: He has mastered their language.

Elizabeth Neumann: The threats against Democratic governors prove Trump’s rhetoric encourages violence.

New York Times: For Trump’s Backers in Congress, ‘Devil Terms’ Help Rally Voters: In vilifying tweets and speeches, G.O.P. lawmakers who contested the election have far outpaced other Republicans and Democrats in fueling polarization.

NPR: ‘Hatemonger’ Tracks How Right-Wing Media Shaped Trump Policy Architect Stephen Miller.

Laura Ellyn Smith: How Donald Trump put an end to the GOP’s Southern strategy: Trading the dog-whistle for the bullhorn.

Trump & the Rise in Hate Crimes

BBC: ‘Trump effect’ led to hate crime surge, report finds.

The Washington Post: Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes: There is suggestive evidence that Trump’s rhetoric matters.  

Adeel Hassan: Hate-Crime Violence Hits 16-Year High, F.B.I. Reports: The bureau’s annual report showed a significant upswing in violence against Latinos.

Denis Romero: In the Era of Trump, Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Jumped 69% in L.A.

Daniel Villarreal: Hate Crimes Under Trump Surged Nearly 20 Percent Says FBI Report.

Trump, Extremists, & Extremist Groups

Hannah Allam: 5 Takeaways About The Trump Administration’s Response To Far-Right Extremism.

AP News: Trump and DeSantis court Moms for Liberty in a sign of the group’s rising influence over the GOP.

Zachary Basu & Jonathan Swan: Trump talks with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner.

Kathleen Belew: Why ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Should Set Off Alarm Bells.

Will Carless: Crowd members hold up white supremacist group’s slogan at Trump/Vance event.

Kyle Cheney: Text message trove shows Oath Keepers discussing security details for Trump associates: Roger Stone and Michael Flynn were among them.

CNN: 1990 report: Ivana Trump told her lawyer Donald Trump kept Hitler speeches beside bed.

Tom Dreisbach: Trump’s Bedminster club hosted an alleged Nazi sympathizer who stormed the Capitol.

David Gilbert: Laura Loomer Is MAGA at Its Most Extreme—and She’s Closer to Donald Trump Than Ever.

Eric Hananoki: Trump shared post from N-word-spewing account that claims “Hitler was right” and the Holocaust “never happened”.

Pete Kotz: Armed conspiracy group will defend Republicans at Minneapolis Trump rally.

Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazi and far right groups seize on Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric.

MSNBC: Trump shares stage with self-proclaimed Oath Keeper at Arizona rally.

Flynn Nicholls: Swastika Flags Flown During Donald Trump Boat Parade in Florida.

NPR: Former DHS Official: Trump Pouring ‘Fuel On The Fire’ Of Domestic Extremism.

Christian Picciolini: Former Neo-Nazi Says Trump’s Call for Proud Boys to “Stand By” Will Encourage More Violence.

Greg Sargent: A former DHS insider sheds a darker light on Trump’s vile ‘Proud Boys’ comment.

Slashing Resources to Combat Violent White Supremacist Extremism

Nicole Einbinder: The Trump administration has actually cut government resources to fight white supremacy and domestic terrorism.

Ron Nixon and Eileen Sullivan: Revocation of Grants to Help Fight Hate Under New Scrutiny After Charlottesville.

Trump & the Politics of White Grievance & Victimhood

Peter Baker: More Than Ever, Trump Casts Himself as the Defender of White America: Presenting himself as a warrior against identity politics, the president has increasingly made appeals to the grievances of white supporters a centerpiece of his re-election campaign.

Erin Banco & Asawin Suebsaeng: Trump Advisers: He Was ‘Triggered’ by Talk of White Supremacy.

Philip Bump: In a pair of interviews, Trump highlights white victimhood: Asked about police killings of black Americans, Trump replies: What about whites?

Nicholas Confessore: For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance.

Astead W. Herndon: ‘Nothing Less Than a Civil War’: These White Voters on the Far Right See Doom Without Trump.

Angie Maxwell: Donald Trump and the Lost Cause.

Trump & White Nationalism

Sean Collins: Trump once flirted with white nationalism. Now it’s a centerpiece of his White House.

Morning Edition: Experts Discuss White Nationalism And Trump’s Controversial Retweet.

Nell Irvin Painter: Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin.

Christopher Petrella: The ominous history surrounding President Trump’s Fourth of July rally: White nationalists have long used the holiday to advance their dreams of a white country.

Zachary Smith: Why Donald Trump’s response to the New Zealand shooting is dangerous:  A lack of vigilance from our leaders could result in white nationalism reentering the cultural mainstream.

Alexandra Minna Stern: Is Trump Building a White Ethnostate? 

Benjamin Swasey: Trump Retweets Video Of Apparent Supporter Saying ‘White Power’.

White Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

John Fea: Why do white evangelicals still staunchly support Donald Trump? The answers lies in the Reagan-era religious right.

Emily S. Johnson: How white evangelicals learned to love Donald Trump: Evangelical support for the president reflects four decades of political lessons.

NPR: ‘If You Can Keep It’: Donald Trump, White Evangelicals, And The 2024 Election.

Matthew Avery Sutton:  Explaining the bond between Trump and white evangelicals: It’s all about an agenda — and it’s nothing new.

The Washington Post: ‘Ordained by God’: Trump’s legal problems galvanize Iowa evangelicals.

Christian Nationalism & Donald Trump

Hannah Allam: Pro-Trump Christian extremists use scripture to justify violent goals: As Donald Trump is deemed a “spiritual warrior,” extremism researchers warn of the menace embedded in Christian nationalist rhetoric.

Michelle Boorstein & Hannah Knowles: Here’s what the Christian right wants from a second Trump term: Religious conservatives see opportunities for fresh gains after a series of victories during Trump’s first term. Rights advocates see a dangerous blurring of church and state.

Philip Bump: The overlap of Trumpism and Christian nationalism.

McKay Coppins: The Most Revealing Moment of a Trump Rally: A close reading of the prayers delivered before the former president speaks.

Chris Lehmann: The Terrifying Christian Nationalist Crusade to Conquer America: An extremist evangelical movement has set itself up to formulate the governing priorities of a second Trump administration.

Heidi Przybyla & Alexander Ward: Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration: Spearheading the effort is Russell Vought, president of The Center for Renewing America, part of a conservative consortium preparing for Trump’s return to power.

Trump & QAnon

Isaac Arnsdorf: How a QAnon splinter group became a feature of Trump rallies.

David Gilbert: Trump’s Social Media Platform Is Now Showing Ads Targeting QAnon Believers.

David Klepper & Ali Swenson: Trump openly embraces, amplifies QAnon conspiracy theories.

Hannah Knowles: 24 hours of Trump: QAnon tributes, crude attacks and hawking pieces of his suit.

Amna Nawaz: Trump’s embrace of QAnon raising concerns about future political violence.

David Neiwert: Trump’s meltdown on Truth Social rips away façade as he embraces QAnon conspiracy theories.

Trump’s Racism Online

Bobby Allyn: Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An ‘Emoji’.

Ken Bensinger and Maggie Haberman: Trump’s Evolution in Social-Media Exile: More QAnon, More Extremes.

Andy Cao, Jason M. Lindo & Jiee Zhong: Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents? Evidence from Trump’s “Chinese Virus” Tweets.

Drew Harwell: New video undercuts claim Twitter censored pro-Trump views before Jan. 6: In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence.

NPR: Trump posted a video on Truth Social calling the country a ‘unified reich’ if he wins.

Trump’s & the Rise of Anti-Asian Hate During Covid-19

Rishika Dugyala & Beatrice Jin: Trauma and Trump make Asian American voters a more cohesive bloc, new poll reveals: Ahead of the 2022 midterms, the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll found that Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders are significantly more likely to be mobilized by a shared fear of violence and discrimination than before the pandemic.

David Nakamura: With ‘kung flu,’ Trump sparks backlash over racist language — and a rallying cry for supporters.

Khaleda Rahman: Donald Trump Repeats ‘China Virus’ Slur on Fox News on Same Night As Atlanta Shootings.

Sabrina Tavernise & Richard A. Oppel Jr.: Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety. As bigots blame them for the coronavirus and President Trump labels it the “Chinese virus,” many Chinese-Americans say they are terrified of what could come next.

Trump’s Anti-Indigenous Racism

Shawn Boburg: Donald Trump’s long history of clashes with Native Americans.

Jordyn Phelps: What’s behind Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ taunt of Warren.

Darren R. Reid: How Native Americans shaped Trump’s presidency – and helped bring him down.

Anna V. Smith: Trump’s impact on Indian Country over four years: From legal decisions to on-the-ground policies, Indigenous lawyers describe the administration’s tactics as an “onslaught” removing federal protections of land and wildlife.

Amber Torres: Trump’s Tribal Record: The Destructive Era.

Trump’s Anti-Puerto Rican Racism

Nicole Acevedo:

Devan Cole: Trump considered selling Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, former acting Homeland Security chief says.

Jill Colvin: Trump scoffs at ‘politically motivated ingrates’ after Maria.

Aris Folley: San Juan mayor: Puerto Ricans won’t forget images of Trump throwing paper towels to hurricane survivors.

Andrea González-Ramírez: Trump’s Tweets About Puerto Rico’s Maria Death Toll Are His Worst Gaslighting Yet.

President Trump’s Anti-Black Racism

Yamiche Alcindor: Why the man Trump once called ‘my African American’ is leaving the GOP.

Madison Alder & Jasmine Ye Han: Trump Nears Post-Nixon First: No Black Circuit Judges.

DeNeen L. Brown: Trump rally in Tulsa, site of a race massacre, on Juneteenth was ‘almost blasphemous,’ historian says.

Jonathan Capehart: Trump’s flirtation with the n-word cannot be ignored.

Sewell Chan: The link between anti-Black racism and Trump’s ‘kung flu’ comment.

Nicole Chavez: Trump calls protesters ‘thugs’ despite peaceful demonstrations in Tulsa and much of the US.

Liam Dillon, Chris Megerian, & Eli Stokols: Trump repeals rule meant to integrate neighborhoods, further stoking racial divisions in campaign.

Nnamdi Egwuonwu & Amanda Terkel: Trump says ‘the Black people’ like him because he’s been ‘discriminated against’ in the legal system: In a speech to a group of Black conservatives, he also said Black Americans “embraced” his mug shot more than anyone else.

David A. Graham: Donald Trump Questions Whether Kamala Harris Is Really Black.

Jon Greenberg: Trump’s Pants on Fire tweet that blacks killed 81% of white homicide victims.

Kristen Holmes & Kevin Liptak: Trump calls Black Lives Matter a ‘symbol of hate’.

Betsy Klein & Kevin Liptak: White House refuses to denounce Confederate flag as Trump bemoans NASCAR’s ban.

Louis Nelson: Trump revives his Twitter fights with black athletes.

NPR: Kamala Harris already faces racism and sexism from Trump and Republicans.

Sara Patenaude: President Trump’s Baltimore tweets were racist — but he also fails to grasp what ails our cities: Decades of racist policies — not absentee congressmen — explain cities’ biggest struggles.

Patrick Rucker: Trump Financial Regulator Quietly Shelved Discrimination Probes Into Bank of America and Other Lenders: At least six investigations into discriminatory mortgage loan “redlining” have been halted or stalled — against staff recommendations — under the Trump administration’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Kyla Sommers: How politicians use fear of cities like Baltimore to stoke white resentment: President Trump is building on a tactic pioneered by segregationists.

Enforcing a Racist Education System

Char Adams: How Trump ignited the fight over critical race theory in schools.

Derrick Clifton: How the Trump administration’s ‘1776 Report’ warps the history of racism and slavery.

CNN: Trump administration issues racist school curriculum report on MLK day.

Michael Crowley & Jennifer Schuessler: Trump’s 1776 Commission Critiques Liberalism in Report Derided by Historians: The report charges that Americans are being indoctrinated with a false narrative of the nation’s founding and identity, including the role of slavery in its history.

Kevin Liptak: Trump says Department of Education will investigate use of 1619 Project in schools.

Shannon Pettypiece: Trump calls for ‘patriotic education,’ says anti-racism teachings are ‘child abuse.’ 

Trump’s Attacks on DEI

ACLU: Trump’s Attacks on DEI Reveal Administration’s Agenda for Second Term.

Hailey Fuchs: Trump Attack on Diversity Training Has a Quick and Chilling Effect: A presidential executive order banning the “malign ideology” of racial sensitivity training has rippled through government into academia and corporate America.

Military News: The Military Is Resuming the Diversity Training That Trump Banned.

NPR: Agencies, Contractors Suspend Diversity Training To Avoid Violating Trump Order.

Trump & the Escalation of Political Violence

Isaac Arnsdorf:

Jennifer Bendery: Colorado Secretary Of State ‘Extremely Concerned’ About Pro-Trump Violence: Jena Griswold received 64 death threats and more than 900 threats of abuse within three weeks of the case being filed to keep Trump off the state ballot.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat & Norman Eisen: Context only makes Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ comment worse: Authoritarians know that to get people to overcome taboos about committing violence.

Philip Bump: In Waco, Trump stokes anger and valorizes violent actors.

CNN: Federal judge delivers rare response after Trump attacks the daughter of a judge.

Ruby Cramer: Trump is ‘fascist to the core,’ Milley says in Woodward book:The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says Trump is “the most dangerous person to this country,” echoing dire warnings of others in national security circles.

Paul Farhi: Trump’s violent rhetoric is getting muted coverage by the news media.

Mark Follman: JD Vance Reiterates False Claim That Democrats “Tried to Kill” Trump: The VP candidate and other Trump allies keep pushing a narrative that threat assessment experts say will fuel violence.

Jordan Green: How Trump ally Michael Flynn is priming supporters for violence ahead of the election.

George Lakoff & Gil Duran: Donald Trump and the language of violence: No one has done more to frame American politics in violent terms.

Mike Levine: ‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 54 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.

PBS: Trump conspiracies inspire threats against judges, jurors and election workers.

Christopher Mathias: Trump’s Campaign Rhetoric Is ‘Fascist.’ It Will Inspire More Violence. According to experts, the GOP presidential nominee is instilling a dangerous level of fear in his followers, setting himself up as their savior. Their only hope.

Reuters: Trump blasts his trial judges. Then his fans call for violence.

J.D. Wolf: Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope: Trump signals approval of violent imagery targeting his political opponents.

Trump’s Affinity for Dictators

Jill Colvin & Nicholas Riccardi: Trump has long praised autocrats and populists. He’s now embracing Argentina’s new president.

Anne Applebaum: Trump Is Putting On a Show in Portland: The president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered.

Steve Benen: Trump raises stakes in 2024 race, praises ‘iron fist’ leaders: The more Donald Trump praises foreign dictators, authoritarians and autocrats, the more he raises the stakes in the 2024 presidential race.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat:

CNN: Expert explains ‘the danger’ in Trump’s meeting with far-right leader.

Casey Michel: How Viktor Orbán Conquered the Heritage Foundation: Once the redoubt of Reaganism, the think tank has taken to promoting Trump’s favorite strongman.

Sara Pequeño: Trump keeps praising dictators like Hitler and Kim Jong Un. Will Republicans ever care?

Politico: Orbán threatens to mess with Ukraine aid to help Trump.

Yasmeen Serhan: Trump Endorses His Legacy: The former president’s backing of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is really just an endorsement of his own tactics.

Timothy Snyder: The Cowardly Face of Authoritarianism.

Trump, Authoritarianism, & Fascism

Noah Berlatsky: The Trump effect: New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism.  The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.

Sarah Churchwell: The return of American fascism: How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.

Ruby Cramer: Trump is ‘fascist to the core,’ Milley says in Woodward book:The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says Trump is “the most dangerous person to this country,” echoing dire warnings of others in national security circles.

Tim Dickinson & Asawin Suebsaeng: What If Trump Wins?The chaos and lawlessness of the first term could pale in comparison to what comes next.

Benjamin Carter Hett: Trump says criminal activity is genetic. Nazis showed where such talk can lead.

Norman Eisen & Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Context only makes Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ comment worse: Authoritarians know that to get people to overcome taboos about committing violence.

Federico Finchelstein: Donald Trump has blurred the line between populism and fascism in a dangerous way: Populists traditionally abided by electoral results, while fascists scorned the will of the majority. Trump has changed that.

Joseph Lowndes: Trump wants no limits on presidential power. That’s not new for the GOP.

Christopher Mathias:

Reed McMaster: Trump called for “remigration,” a form of ethnic cleansing. Major outlets failed to cover it.

Greg Sargent: Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism.

Patrick Svitek: Trump floats ‘one really violent day’ for police to combat retail crime.

Adam Wren: Trump’s Chief Legal Defender Vows a ‘Reign of Terror’ — Or Is It All an Act? Mike Davis could be Trump’s attorney general, and he says he wants to put journalists in gulags and kids in cages. He also says he’s trolling. The line isn’t always so clear.

Trump’s 2024 claim that migrants are eating people’s pets

Isaac Chotiner: The Historical Precedents to Trump’s Attacks on Haitian Immigrants:An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.

Jasmine Garsd: The stereotype of immigrants eating dogs and cats is storied — and vitriolic as ever.

Jared Holt: The Springfield bomb threats are a natural byproduct of MAGA’s moral panic playbook.

Jason Koebler: Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump’s Lies About Haitian Immigrants.

Paige Oamek: Trump’s Deranged Migrant Conspiracy Is Already Fomenting Violence: The city of Springfield, Ohio, is already witnessing the consequences of Trump’s baseless conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are eating people’s pets.

Scott Waldman and Thomas Frank: Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him.

The Washington Post:

Odette Yousef: In parroting a lie about migrants in Springfield, Ohio, Trump excites extremists.

Brandy Zadrozny: Before Trump, neo-Nazis pushed false claims about Haitians as part of hate campaign: An extremist group that marched in Springfield, Ohio, and demonized Haitian immigrants saw Trump’s mention of baseless rumors at the debate as a victory: “This is what real power looks like.”

Other Examples of the White Supremacy of Donald Trump

Charles Blow: From ‘Ku Kluxism’ to Trumpism.

Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, & Jennifer Sutton: Toward a Global History of White Supremacy: The simultaneous success of Trump and Brexit was no coincidence: white supremacist politics are international in scope and often share entwined histories.

Isabella Gelfand and Vanessa Williamson: Trump and racism: What do the data say?

Leo Ribuffo:

Eugene Robinson: Trump is shouting his racism. He must be stopped.

Donald K. Sherman: Trump’s corruption is racist, and his racism is corrupt: Last week’s cynical GOP convention made the intersection all too clear.

Elizabeth R. Varon: Trump’s 2020 playbook is coming straight from Southern enslavers: Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.