Earl Ofari Hutchinson
A Q and A on the GOP and it’s White Supremacist-in-Chief
How does Trump depart from other GOP presidents when it comes to race?
Trump is a horse of a different color than any other GOP president in practically a century. His full-blown assault on every DEI program ever devised was crude, cynical, and a calculating near textbook race baiting ploy. Neither Reagan, nor the two Bush presidents, fanned overt racism. Neither was unabashedly blatant in trying to totally roll back every civil rights gain of the past half century. And no GOP president and that included Nixon ever blatantly race baited with name calling publicly with absolutely no shame as Trump routinely does. Trump has all the earmarks of a quasi-fascist American style.
Did Trump escalate the resurgence of neo-fascist and white supremacist organizations?
Trump tipped off that he would give a wink and nod to racist and white nationalist and supremacist organizations even before he was president. He race baited then President Obama relentlessly on his alleged non-American birth. This was a crude racist dog whistle. It sent the message to white supremacists, it’s OK to take the sheets out the closet.
Since then, every study and survey has shown that not only racism and anti Semitism are surging but that it is no longer in the closet. With the wraps off, it is now almost fashionable for many whites and not just the unreconstructed white bigots but many ordinary whites to express and even act out their racist views particularly against Blacks.
Do you believe the national GOP party organization and state organizations such as the California GOP when they say they oppose racism and racist such as Nick Fuentes?
The national GOP and the California GOP have been talking out of both sides of their mouths for decades. On the one hand they pretend to be the national and state parties that denounce racism and racist statements and those that like Fuentes who are unreconstructed racists. But quietly the national and state GOP parties operate as the GOP has in the past six decades. That is to quietly welcome in their voter and support tent folk who share the views of the Fuentes of America.
The GOP pays lip service to inclusion but is it any more than just hot air?
There is nothing new in the GOP moving closer to an overt embrace of white racist tinged pandering. It started with Nixon and picked up with Reagan and has been a quiet staple of the GOP’s winning elections plan through the years. The only difference is that Trump has taken off the past sneaky, code word and language pandering, and made racism almost a quasi-official position of the GOP.
Four Black Republican congressman will not run for reelection in 2026 does this signal Black retreat from the GOP?
Retreat is the wrong word. There never has been, despite Trump’s lies and bluster any significant wholesale shift of Blacks to the GOP. The paltry number of Backs who kow towed to and cozied up to the GOP as voters, candidates, and in a cases, a few elected officials, have either rudely found out or are finding out that under Trump the game has changed. They are not welcome in the party, they will get no crumb handouts any longer, and Trump and the GOP are not shy in driving that point home.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is the author White-Supremacist-in-Chief (Amazon ebook and Middle Passage Press)
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He hosts the weekly news and issues commentary radio show The Hutchinson Report Wednesdays 6 PM PST 9 PM EST at ktymgospel.net