It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true-his ideology is white supremacy in all of its truculent and sanctimonious power. Trump inaugurated his campaign by casting himself as the defender of white maidenhood against Mexican "rapists," only to be later revealed as a proud violator. White supremacy has always had a perverse sexual tint. It is thus appropriate that Trump's rise was shepherded by Steve Bannon, a man who mocks his white male opponents as "cucks." The word, derived from cuckold, is specifically meant to debase by fear/fantasy-the target is so weak that he would submit to the humiliation of having his white wife lie with black men. That the slur cuck casts white men as victims aligns with the dictums of whiteness, which seek to alchemize one's profligate sins into virtue. So it was with Virginia slaveholders claiming that Britain sought to make slaves of them. So it was with rapacious Klansmen organized against alleged outrages. So it was with a candidate who called for a foreign power to hack his opponent's email and a president now claiming to be the victim of "the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.
( Ta-Nehisi Coates )
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