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White Supremacy ‘Carnage’ in a Post-Trump America Is No Longer An Ominous Threat . . . It’s Here
If you think the Republican Party has no policy agenda, think again. They do have one policy . . . to make sure White Christian Men hold the power in America at all costs.
By Stephen Hanks
Author’s Note: This essay was originally written shortly before the 2016 Presidential Election and then updated during the 2020 Presidential Campaign between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. In light of the recent horrific hate murders of 10 Black People in Buffalo by an avowed White Supremacist, I’ve again — sadly — had to revise this piece.
The 2017 murder of a young woman during a Neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, VA. The murder of 11 Jewish worshipers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. The 2019 murder of 51 Muslim worshipers at a pair of mosques in New Zealand, followed the same year by the murder of 23 people, many Latino, in El Paso, TX. The 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer. In 2021, according to the Anti-Defamation League, 26 people killed by right-wing extremists. And this past weekend, 10 Black people killed in Buffalo by an 18-year-old who was radicalized into hate by Donald Trump, Fox News, Social…
