When Donald Trump began to take his presidential run seriously almost a decade ago, he notably kicked it off by unleashing bigoted attacks against President Barack Obama, and the epicenter of his rants were embedded in the rhetoric that has revoltingly become his signature move.
What better way to rally his base of White supremacists and ignorant White Americans, who have suffered through the Obama years than to fight for the restoration of White supremacy. The fragility of Whiteness lies at the heart of victimhood that gives instigators the audacity to vilify the oppressed in ways that can be justified and glorified.
Obama was the first-ever Black president in a country that was founded on the principles that made Whiteness the most valued currency. That historical victory was a bittersweet course that both pleasured the palettes of emphatic loyalists of the American Dream, while souring the mood of inconsolable citizens, who have never wanted to share that “Dream” with un-Americans from shithole countries, who pose a threat to the sanctity of Whiteness.
Trump knew that after eight years of Blackness in the White House, his hate-filled messaging targeting migrants, non-White immigrants, and Muslim-Americans, would be the winning narrative that would rival the boring goodness of his preferred rival.
