'Champion of white supremacy': Columnist says Trump’s 'noxious bigotry' reveals 'true mindset'

02 March 2024

Voters shouldn't be so distracted by former President Donald Trump's mountain of legal issues that they overlook his pattern of racist behavior, according to a Washington Post columnist.

The Post's Jennifer Rubin — a traditional conservative who describes herself as "NeverTrump" — wrote in a recent column that the media's assumption that the former president will win over more voters of color in this election than in his two previous bids for the White House unfairly glosses over his "casual racism." As evidence, she pointed to Trump's recent statements saying Black voters liked him because of his multiple criminal indictments and mug shots, and his echoing of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler when he accused immigrants of "poisoning the blood of our country."

"Likewise, he left no doubt about his noxious bigotry toward immigrants at his unhinged rant at the Conservative Political Action Conference," Rubin wrote, referencing Trump saying immigrants from "Africa," Asia" and "the Middle East" were "destroying our country."

"His plan to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants goes hand in hand with his effort to dehumanize them," she added.

Rubin chastised her fellow journalists for asserting "with straight faces that Trump has a real shot to win over large numbers of African American voters," saying the implication is an insult to Black voters by suggesting they're "as easily bamboozled as the red-hat-wearing cultists." She also reminded readers of Trump declaring at a South Carolina rally that "bright lights" in his face made it so he could only see the faces of Black attendees.

Aside from his rhetoric, Rubin argued that Trump's policies are also racist in nature. She observed that his crusade against the non-existent specter of "voter fraud" overwhelmingly targets minority voters, and that he baselessly blamed two Black female poll workers in Georgia for his 2020 election loss in the Peach State. He's also repeated the debunked conspiracy theory that Democrats are hoping to bring in scores of undocumented immigrants so they can register to vote in elections.

"Such casual racism wins plaudits with the white-nationalist crowd but reveals his true mindset," she wrote. "MAGA is a movement largely for and by white Christian nationalists who insist they are the 'real' Americans. Mainstream media outlets seem disinclined to devote sustained coverage to Trump’s racist outlook and his party’s coddling of white nationalists. It will be up to Democrats to remind voters: Trump is the champion of white supremacy."

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