Neoliberalism to Trumpism: The Re-Normalization of White Supremacy as State Ideology
Neoliberalism to Trumpism: The Re-Normalization of White Supremacy as State Ideology
Neoliberalism to Trumpism: The Re-Normalization of White Supremacy as State Ideology | Black Agenda Report
The crisis of late-stage capitalism has stripped away the liberal disguise and revealed white supremacy as the official ideology of the U.S. state.
To understand the current historical moment, it is not enough to catalog the reactionary policies of the Trump administration. One must understand the deeper ideological logic that makes those policies appear both rational and necessary to the ruling class. In the United States, the resurgence of open appeals to "Western civilization," the demonization of immigrants, the criminalization of anti-colonial resistance, the assault on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and the expansion of the national security state are not isolated political developments. On the contrary, they represent a conscious reassertion of a normalized racialized colonial worldview that historically has always rationalized Western colonial/capitalist conquest and dominance.