Will Trump's Racism Remain a Force in U.S. Politics?
Donald Trump will leave the White House in January, but Trumpism-that amorphous mobilization of nationalism, white nostalgia, and anti-elite grievance, twisted by disinformation-will likely remain a force in American politics for years. How bad will Trumpism after Trump be? "Seventy-two million people is a lot of people," President-elect Joe Biden noted this week, in an interview with the Times' Thomas L. Friedman, referring to Trump's electorate in 2020. But, when Trump departs, "I'm not so sure that ugliness stays," Biden said. "There may be twenty percent of it. Twenty-five percent of it,...