Bear with me.  I saw an article that I almost skipped, but it ended up being better than I’d thought, and I wanted to pass it on.

I know that we’re all tired of reading breathless articles about Trump being a  — gasp! — racist.  That’s what I felt when I saw the Sunday’s New York Times article: “The Policies of White Resentment,” by Carol Anderson, professor of African-American studies at Emory University.

My first thought was, ‘Yeah, so what?’  Hell, Trump locks himself into his closet at the idea of anyone brown.  What can Anderson tell me that I can’t already see plainly?

Turns out, the article was a good read.  Much less pedantic than I am, for example (big surprise), concise, and direct.

If there is one consistent thread through Mr. Trump’s political career, it is his overt connection to white resentment and white nationalism.  Mr. Trump’s fixation on Barack Obama’s birth certificate gave him the white nationalist street cred that no other Republican candidate could match, and that credibility has sustained him in office — no amount of scandal or evidence of incompetence will undermine his followers’ belief that he, and he alone, could Make America White Again.

So consider this a public ‘like’.  Carol Anderson is plugging her book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.  While the title sounds as awful as most modern political nonfiction, I was watching her on Rachel Maddow last night, and she’s riveting to watch.  If her longer writing is as interesting as her Op-Ed stuff, it should be worth the effort.