The President’s Pursuit of White Power
Trump’s response to Charlottesville showed the core of his philosophy: the preservation of America’s traditional hierarchies of race.
Editor’s Note: This article is one of 50 in a series about Trump's first two years as president.
Armed white terrorists, many of them Confederate veterans, stormed the July 1866 constitutional convention in New Orleans and slaughtered nearly 50 people, many of them black Union veterans. The attendees at the convention had committed a crime of
