One of the biggest questions surrounding a potential second Trump presidency is how exactly it would differ from the first one.
Normally presidents don’t have to address this question when they’re running for a second term, they can just promise more of the same. But for Trump, he’s obviously been out of office for a few years. He’s one of a handful of presidents in American history seeking a nonconsecutive term, and a lot’s changed since 2021. And, as even Trump’s most devoted supporters would admit, he wasn’t able to achieve all of his promises in his first four years in office. It stands to reason that accomplishing those goals the second time around might require something of a new approach.
On Tuesday, we got one of the clearest signs yet that Donald Trump will indeed be taking a new approach concerning one of the biggest problems this country faces, which directly impacts more than 200 million Americans at every stage of their life — from schooling to the workplace to government assistance and healthcare. I’m talking about anti-whiteism. This is a word that’s more or less verboten even in conservative circles. Unlike, say, anti-Semitism, no one wants to talk about it. But in an interview with Time magazine this week, Trump confirmed that combating anti-white racism, by name, will be one of the key goals of his administration if he wins re-election.
Trump was responding to a question about polls showing that most of his supporters believe, correctly, that anti-white racism is a much bigger problem in this country than anti-black racism:
“Oh, I think that there is a lot to be said about that,” Trump said. “If you look at the Biden administration, they’re sort of against anybody depending on certain views. They’re against Catholics. They’re against a lot of different people. They actually don’t even know what they’re against, but they’re against a lot. But no, I think there is a definite anti-white feeling in this country and that can’t be allowed either. .. If you look right now, there’s absolutely a bias against white and that’s a problem.”
This shouldn’t have been a significant moment in the presidential race. It should’ve had all the significance of a candidate affirming that the sky is blue. Trump doesn’t even say that anti-white racism is more prevalent than any other type of racism — though it is, obviously. Instead, he just says that there is some amount of anti-white sentiment in the country and that is also a bad thing. There shouldn’t be anything even notable about that. But it was a surprising moment, even for Trump supporters.
In his first term, Trump rarely if ever mentioned the concept of anti-whiteism so explicitly. I couldn’t find any evidence of it. But a couple of years ago, Trump pointed out that the Biden administration was giving preferential medical treatment to non-white Americans, and in the past several months, former Trump adviser Stephen Miller has been targeting anti-white institutions in this country with lawsuits. And now Trump himself is recognizing the broader problem with anti-whiteism in our culture.
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You can tell this moment caught the Left by surprise because the mere acknowledgment that anti-whiteism exists was enough to reduce some commentators practically to tears. Here for example was the reaction from Whoopi Goldberg:
The View is the most antiwhite show on TV. Here, Whoopi Goldberg feigns outrage at Trump's remarks about the antiwhite feeling in America, but she knows it's true – she makes her money from it. She also knows that lynchings were done to criminals, including white people. pic.twitter.com/TThYXTc1F9
— Way of the World (@wayotworld) May 1, 2024
“Nobody in your family was hung,” Whoopi Goldberg barks at Donald Trump. That’s one of the few cases where the difference between the words “hanged” and “hung” is actually pretty important, unless Whoopi Goldberg has some kind of intimate knowledge of Trump’s family that I’m not aware of. She also claims Donald Trump is “anti-humanist,” which makes it clear she doesn’t know what humanism is.
From context, though, it seems like Whoopi is saying that because no one in Donald Trump’s family was lynched, therefore anti-whiteism can’t possibly exist today. Or maybe she’s also implying that white people in general were never lynched, and then she’s using that false premise to somehow conclude that anti-whiteism can’t possibly exist today.
Whatever interpretation you choose, it doesn’t work. The largest mass lynching in this country involved Italians, who Whoopi would presumably classify as white. Regardless, white people were not immune from lynchings. In fact, according to a document on the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law’s website, tracking lynchings by race from the years 1882 – 1968, there were 1297 lynchings of white people. While that’s fewer than the 3,445 black lynchings, the point is that you certainly can’t assume that any white person alive today doesn’t have a lynching victim in their ancestral history.
Even if you pretend that lynching has only ever involved black people, it still doesn’t remotely address the fact that anti-whiteism is a much bigger problem right now than anti-black racism. Her entire argument is a non sequitur.
But it’s notable that Whoopi Goldberg was so fired up about this. And indeed, many Democrats are. Earlier this month, Congressman Cedric Richmond, a co-chair of Biden’s campaign, warned that Trump is, quote, “making it clear that if he wins in November, he’ll turn his racist record into official government policy, gutting programs that give communities of color economic opportunities and making the lives of Black and brown folks harder.”
Richmond made those comments in response to an Axios report last month, entitled, “Trump allies plot anti-racism protections — for white people.” Specifically, a new Trump administration would shut down various programs designed to benefit only certain demographic groups. That includes programs like the $29 billion pandemic-era program that would have awarded money only to “women and minority-owned restaurants.” (Stephen Miller’s group, America First Legal, successfully sued to stop that). But there are many more programs like that, which a Trump DOJ could also shut down. That includes the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which mandates interviews with “minority” coaches, for example.
Presumably, a second Trump administration would also end the absurd lawsuit against Sheetz for daring to use criminal background checks, which alleges that any employer using background checks is automatically racist.
This potential return to a race-blind government that respects the Constitution greatly infuriated a woman named Jasmine Harris, who directs “Black media” for the Biden-Harris campaign. (Yes, they apparently have a segregated media department at the Biden campaign that only deals with black people.) Here’s what she said:
This [Axios] report, in addition to all of the recent examples of shameless racism by Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans, serves as a warning to Black America: Donald Trump is a selfish and vindictive man who doesn’t give a damn about Black people. .. He will make our lives worse by using the very laws that the pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement fought for, against us.
There’s actually an interesting admission buried in that quote. The Biden black media director isn’t alleging that Donald Trump is going to do anything illegal. Instead, she’s complaining that he’s going to enforce existing civil rights laws, which were supposedly intended to ensure racial equality. This is a totally foreign concept to the Biden campaign. They’re essentially admitting that they’re discriminating against whites in violation of civil rights laws — but they’re saying those laws just shouldn’t be enforced to protect white people, who they see as second-class citizens.
Yesterday afternoon, we saw yet another sign of this attitude. The Biden campaign’s official rapid response page tweeted this clip of Donald Trump, apparently in an effort to make him look bad. But it was actually more of an advertisement for his campaign. Watch:
Trump: Look at Paris. Look at London. They're no longer recognizable. I'm going to get myself into a lot of trouble, but you know what? That's the fact, they are no longer recognizable. We can't let that happen here pic.twitter.com/sRr6pdU2rb
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 1, 2024
The Biden campaign didn’t even comment on this video. They just posted it, quoting every word Trump said. That’s because they know everything Trump said is true. Pretty much all of the population growth in the U.K. going forward is going to be driven by migration. That’s been the case for the last several years, too. The unstated result is that fewer white people will live in the U.K., which the Biden administration assumes you’ll think is a good thing.
That’s because, in their view, it’s not racist to deliberately diminish white populations. It’s also not racist to violate the civil rights of white people. In fact, they don’t believe it’s possible to be racist against whites in the first place. This is an idea that originated in the bowels of Left-wing academia and Critical Race Theory, and it’s since metastasized to politics.
Here’s how one professor in the U.K. named Pragya Agarwal puts it. See if you can spot the massive flaw in this reasoning:
White people can indeed face stereotypical assumptions based on their skin color and hence encounter racial prejudice. But this cannot be called racism, because of the inherent systemic imbalance of power between those with lighter skin color and people of color. Racial prejudice can affect people on an individual level, but it would not have the same effect on a larger social and cultural level because it is only when stereotypes are bolstered by power … that it creates systemic and structural racism.
In other words, she’s saying white people can’t be victims of racism because racism involves “power” and “systemic imbalance,” and white people have all the power. It takes about two seconds to realize that, even on its own terms, this argument makes precisely no sense whatsoever. The Fortune 500 companies that award preferential treatment to non-white applicants have far more “power” than their white applicants do. So do the universities that award black applicants a 500-point boost on their SAT scores, and the federal government agencies that award financial assistance to various demographic groups on the basis of race.
In all of these cases, there is prejudice backed by “power” — extraordinary power, actually.
But there’s really no point in engaging with Critical Race Theory on the merits, though, because it’s not actually meant to convince anyone of anything. It’s intended to be a thin, allegedly scholarly veneer that justifies overt discrimination against millions of Americans. The appropriate response to this kind of thinking is not to treat it with any kind of legitimacy. It’s to call it what it is: anti-white racism, or anti-whiteism. That’s what Donald Trump has just done. It’s what every Republican should be doing right now.
Talking about anti-whiteism infuriates Democrats because it’s been an unstated core part of their policy agenda for several years. And now, for the first time since Biden took office, it looks like it could very soon come to an end.