I pose this question because President Donald Trump’s second term has been a
manic cycle of corruption, greed, and cruelty. So much so, that many Americans
have been shocked into thinking that this is unlike any presidency in US history.
But I am reminded of the wisdom of James Baldwin in Notes of a Native Son. Mr
Baldwin said that “the past is all that makes the present coherent”, and America’s
past makes clear that President Trump’s anti-black racism and nativism –
animosity aimed at perceptions of alien contamination by minority and immigrant
groups – are well known to American history. Said differently, Donald Trump’s ilk
of white man is not new to the presidency. So please take a brief walk with me as
America’s past makes our present coherent.
To understand why Trump’s hate is on-brand for the presidency we will briefly look
at race through the eyes of Presidential giants George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald
Reagan. Then, we’ll see racism in public policy by looking at the immigration
policies of, again, President’s Jefferson and Lincoln and Herbert Hoover and
Dwight Eisenhower.
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