Robb Willer (Stanford), Matthew Feinberg (Toronto), and Rachel Wetts (UC-Berkeley): Threats to Racial Status Promote Tea Party Support Among White Americans. White Republicans are delusional on race. For whites sensing decline, Donald Trump unleashes words of resistance. For Trump, it’s (white) America First. Rep. Trump has made America more racist — Republicans are okay with that. Racial discontent is rising, but that’s not Obama’s fault: Jamelle Bouie on the anti-anti-racism of the Right. What, Congressman Steve King asks, have nonwhites done for civilization? The 2016 GOP Convention: Earl Ofari Hutchinson on the whitest of the whitest conventions. A white nationalist website is sponsoring an RNC rally featuring Trump surrogates. White nationalists at the RNC don’t think Trump goes far enough. At 150, KKK sees opportunities in US political trends.
Thomas Suddes on the GOP plank: To the (white, conservative) manor born. So long, Grand Old Party; hello, White People’s Party. Clare Malone on the end of a Republican Party: Racial and cultural resentment have replaced the party’s small government ethos.
