How the US Went Fascist: Mass Media Make Excuses for Trump Voters
Trump's racism and xenophobia violates America's core beliefs — yet the media and many Americans are okay with it.
BY JUAN COLE
http://billmoyers.com/story/how-the-us-went-fascist-mass-media-makes-excuses-for-trump-voters/
Trump's racism and xenophobia violates America's core beliefs — yet the media and many Americans are okay with it.
BY JUAN COLE
http://billmoyers.com/story/how-the-us-went-fascist-mass-media-makes-excuses-for-trump-voters/
He is a white nationalist, and his message is that he will stand up for white Christian people against the Chinese, the Mexicans and the Muslims. Just as Adolph Hitler hoped for an alliance with Anglo-Saxon Britain on racial grounds (much preferring it to the less white Italy), the only foreign leader Trump likes is the “white” Vladimir Putin. That he won the evangelical vote again in Nevada is helpful for us in seeing that American evangelicalism itself is in some part a form of white male chauvinist nationalism and only secondarily about religion.